Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 534
3 A BUSY DAY. (^™ By Carolyn Wells. My papa has a littlesign, Printed in black and gray;It s only just a single line: This Is My Busy Day ! And sometimes when I creep to look, He s writing with a pen;Or quietly reading in a book — He calls that busy, then ! Why, when / m busy I just raceDownstairs;… … Then I slide downthe banisters, And from the porch I spring(Perhaps I tumble in the burs), Then go and take a swing. And then I race Jack Smith to town, Or climb the garden wall;And though I m sure to tumble down, Nobody minds a fall. But if I sat still in a chair,It would nt be my wayTo say, with…
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