. Be a good boy ; good-bye, and other back home poems. n ran away in the terror of fright. All things have an end, as the story books say, And this is a rule even spooks must obey. One warm summer night when the spooks time was due,The hat was kicked o/f of a man who drove was scared most to death, but he stopped at the millAnd, though his teeth chattered as if in a chill,He said hed go back and see what was thatWhich had scared him so badly and kicked off his went with a lantern held out on a pole,To see the old fellow who had bartered his , lo and behold! on a cr
. Be a good boy ; good-bye, and other back home poems. n ran away in the terror of fright. All things have an end, as the story books say, And this is a rule even spooks must obey. One warm summer night when the spooks time was due,The hat was kicked o/f of a man who drove was scared most to death, but he stopped at the millAnd, though his teeth chattered as if in a chill,He said hed go back and see what was thatWhich had scared him so badly and kicked off his went with a lantern held out on a pole,To see the old fellow who had bartered his , lo and behold! on a cross beam there satA beautiful peacock, and beneath lay the long tail hung down in a soft downy mass,And this is what did things to folks as theyd pass. 31 The two men explained and many believed it,But still there were doubters who would not receive it;And not a few lived in quite recent years,Who claimed that real toes had tickled their ears. But the bridge is now gone with its dark, gloomy look,And with it has vanished the Turniptown THE OLD COUNTRY CIRCUS That circus was a leveler of evry creed and sect,For folks about the town would go whom you would least suspect;Of course theyd aim to take a boy, or a boy and girl apiece,—It paid a body then to be a nephew or a still can see the crowd in front, all anxious to be in,The band would start a lively piece in merry, rapid elephant would trumpet clear, the lion roared so loudThat little hearts went pit-a-pat, as nearer drew the , what a sight for little folks! They gazed, with bated breath;The trick horse shot the cannon off and scared the clown to Mr. Donkey wandered in, the clown, he wished to ride him,But spite of evr}^ way he tried, he couldnt get astride him. 3 33 And then the way that old clown sang, and acted funny too!Hed talk about his happy past when his old hat was try to act upon the bar, just as the others did,Hed crawl till he got up on top, then down a r
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