Sunset ryhmes; or, A few little rhymes I have told a few times to a child I know, when the sun was low .. . DO LAUNDRY BOYS GROW? There goes the bell; Now who can it beThat comes just at night? Lets go and it is Joe, The big colored man,With a letter or papers, Or things from the van. 25 Mamas at the door; She has opened it wide,And I saw through the crack; I am sure that I spiedThe black laundry boy With the clothes in a sack. The laundry boys bigger, It seems to me,Than he Avas last summer, When I used to seeHim come to our flat In his old straw any coat; And he waite

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Sunset ryhmes; or, A few little rhymes I have told a few times to a child I know, when the sun was low .. . DO LAUNDRY BOYS GROW? There goes the bell; Now who can it beThat comes just at night? Lets go and it is Joe, The big colored man,With a letter or papers, Or things from the van. 25 Mamas at the door; She has opened it wide,And I saw through the crack; I am sure that I spiedThe black laundry boy With the clothes in a sack. The laundry boys bigger, It seems to me,Than he Avas last summer, When I used to seeHim come to our flat In his old straw any coat; And he waited and satOn the step by the door, And played with me thereFor a minute or more. 26. ::^Sl^^^^^^^^^=^^ 27

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