| Show A UTTTLE FELLER He was only a little feller an scarce higher than my knee But lavs he made more mischief than any child you see An he kept his mother worryln from one day to the tuther Fur he was the blamdest child to git In danger somehow nuttier Morn once hed play some trick o his an make me allfired riled But I couldnt no more whip him than I could a month old child Fur hed laugh an look so innercent with them big eyes of blue An most alone I knowed It ho would have me laughing too Sumtlmes hed come on tiptoe an git round behind my chair An put his hands smack on my eyes fur me to guess whos there It want no use glttm mad fur anything he done Fur the chances was fore long hed have us joinln In his fun One day sumhow we lost him and I looked nigh half a day An I found him on the railroad track an busy at his play I hadnt more than got him when I heerd the whistle blow An I saw the freight cum rumblln down than In the bend below Skeered Why law sakes mister you couldnt sheer that child He cared no more for danger than an In jun running wild Bat I was sheered I tell you when I sea what he had done But pshaw I soon was laughln an a cryin all In one Hare now No Hea been away agom on two months An we miss the merry prattle that wa heard around here once No dont reckon hell cum back fur ha has gone away to stay But wife an me are dotin on a seem him sum day You see he took the fever arter we had all got well But sumhow we only reckoned It would hold him down a spell An he kept a growth worse an smkin lower every day But the doctor couldnt help him an one day he went away Yes wo nlss his noisy clatter an the pranks he used to play An wife an I feel lonesome now since ha has gone away Tim house seems kind o still like an wife sits than an cries But I tell her thars no use iij blame I that lamplight hurts my eyes Don Whitney |
