Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . Judge. Officer, release that man at once; hisappearance indicates he has told a straight story. Gettin Washed BURGES JOHNSON AT breakfast, when Im kinder late an hurry to my place,An wanter eat, some person says, Oh, what a dirty face!Or, Leave the table right away, those hands are a disgrace!An when I come back nice an clean, my mother says she fearsI didnt take a lot of pains to wash behin my ears. An lots o times when Ive been out an havent touched a thinThat could have dirtied me a bit, why some ones called me in,—An what the
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . Judge. Officer, release that man at once; hisappearance indicates he has told a straight story. Gettin Washed BURGES JOHNSON AT breakfast, when Im kinder late an hurry to my place,An wanter eat, some person says, Oh, what a dirty face!Or, Leave the table right away, those hands are a disgrace!An when I come back nice an clean, my mother says she fearsI didnt take a lot of pains to wash behin my ears. An lots o times when Ive been out an havent touched a thinThat could have dirtied me a bit, why some ones called me in,—An what they went an said was dirt was shadders on my spose that cedar-tree I climbed did leave some teeny smears,I dont see how a bit could get way up behin my ears! Oh, when Im big, without a nurse or grown-up folks that tease,Some weeks Ill wear my oldest cloes as ragged as I please,An muss my hair an have big holes in both my stockin course Ill wash each mornin, cept when playtime interferes,But you just bet Ill let alone that place behin my ears!. See page 941 HARPERS Monthly Magazine Vol. CIX NOVEMBER, 1904 No. DCLIV In Folkestone out of Season BY WILLIAM DEAN HOW ELLS HOW long the pretty town, or sum-mer city, of Folkestone, on thesoutheastern shore of Kent, hasbeen a favorite English watering-place Iam not ready to say. Very likely the an-cient Britons did not resort to it much;but there are the remains of Roman forti-fications on the downs behind the town,known as Caesars Camp, and thoughCaesar is now said not to have been awareof camping there, other Roman soldiersmust have been there, who could havecome down to the sea for a dip as oftenas they could get liberty. It is alsoimaginable that an occasional Saxon orDane, after a hard days maraudingalong the coast, may have wished towash up in the waters of the Channel;but he could hardly have inauguratedthe sort of season which for five or sixweeks of the later summer finds theFolkestone beaches thronged with vis
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