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Show About That Boy By DOUGLAS MALLOCH ABOUT that boy: I'm worried more Than I have ever been before. He's getting older, more a man, He s just about where 1 began To make mistakes of small amount When nine or ten, but now they count. Yes, more and more he's coming to Do certain things I used to do. I'm worried more about that boy The little things that now annoy His mother, just a word or sign, The same that used to bother mine. I've often wished that I had done A little different when a son, But not imagined, even then. My son would do the same again. I'm stumped about that boy, because He's getting like his father was, Is not a bit more serious now Than well, than I was, anyhow. The little tricks of ten or so I knew, of course, that he'd outgrow out-grow ; He's changing, that Is plain to see Confound It, getting more like me I . 1933. Douglas Malloch. WNU Service. |