Our young folks [serial] . The world was a farm, and the work was fun;The workers were children, and she was one country was coops and sheds,And baskets and pullets and little girls heads ; i872.] Berthas Dream. 17 She had nothing to do, but just to make Little capes for the chickens, or run and break Her hatful of eggs, then fill it again ; Or wait for some very polite old hen That was sure to meet her half-way, and beg For the loan of her lap while she laid her an egg! The laziest hen of them all would lay Hundreds of eggs in a single day,— Yes, sir, in a day!Hundreds and hundreds of
Our young folks [serial] . The world was a farm, and the work was fun;The workers were children, and she was one country was coops and sheds,And baskets and pullets and little girls heads ; i872.] Berthas Dream. 17 She had nothing to do, but just to make Little capes for the chickens, or run and break Her hatful of eggs, then fill it again ; Or wait for some very polite old hen That was sure to meet her half-way, and beg For the loan of her lap while she laid her an egg! The laziest hen of them all would lay Hundreds of eggs in a single day,— Yes, sir, in a day!Hundreds and hundreds of eggs in a day !. Then all one country was barns and mows, And farm-yards fragrant with new-milch cows, And lowing heifers with switching tails, And queer little maids with the queerest of pails ! Such queer little maids ! — and she was one ; And there was no end of the work to be done. Some milked the heifers, and some brought home Great buckets brimming with snow-white foam ; One drank all the milk, and one got a fall, Poor little milkmaid, bucket and all! There were thousands of milkmaids, just like her, And she never could count all the cows there were, Such herds there were,With thousands of milkmaids just like her!VOL. vin. — no. 1. 2 Berthas Dream. [January,
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