. The Boston dip, and other verses . LOVE UP A TREE. HERE was a seat in the apple-tree, —A most delightful and cosey nook ;And one afternoon, about half-past three,Kitty sat there, reading a book ;Her fair head bare, with no hat to mar, And her dress just showed one dainty boot;And he saw her, as he smoked his he came and stood at the ladders foot. Kitty half blushed, then smiled, and said, Wont you come up and sit here now? And Kittys brother — a boy to dread —Saw, and determined to raise a row; 42 LOVE UP A TREE. 43 So he crept softly under the tree, Listening to all that they had
. The Boston dip, and other verses . LOVE UP A TREE. HERE was a seat in the apple-tree, —A most delightful and cosey nook ;And one afternoon, about half-past three,Kitty sat there, reading a book ;Her fair head bare, with no hat to mar, And her dress just showed one dainty boot;And he saw her, as he smoked his he came and stood at the ladders foot. Kitty half blushed, then smiled, and said, Wont you come up and sit here now? And Kittys brother — a boy to dread —Saw, and determined to raise a row; 42 LOVE UP A TREE. 43 So he crept softly under the tree, Listening to all that they had to say,Did the impish brother, and, sly as could be, Seized the ladder and bore it away. Then they saw him, and she, with a frown, Said, What will that awful boy do next?And she called him the greatest scamp in town ; Yet I dont believe she was very much her lips half smiled, though her eyes half cried, As she saw the position of matters he came over and sat by her side, Leaving his seat on the opposite bough
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