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<h3><SPAN name="romulus" id="romulus"></SPAN>ROMULUS</h3> <p class="block12 b4">Romulus, Romulus,<br/> Father of Rome,<br/> Ran off with a wolf<br/> And he wouldn’t come home.<br/> <br/> When he grew up<br/> He founded a city<br/> With an eagle, a bear,<br/> And a tortoise-shell kitty.</p> <div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-072as.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="371" alt="Illustration 72a" title="" /> <br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-072ax.jpg"></SPAN></span></div> <h3><SPAN name="hero" id="hero"></SPAN>THE HERO</h3> <p class="block19 b4">My dad was a soldier and fought in the wars,<br/> My grandfather fought on the sea,<br/> And the tales of their daring and valor of course<br/> Put the sand and the ginger in me.<br/> <br/> I’m not scared of tigers or any wild beast,<br/> I could fight with a lion all right,<br/> I wouldn’t be ’fraid of a bear in the least—<br/> Excepting, perhaps, in the night.<br/> <br/> But sister, she’s skeery as skeery can be,<br/> She’s even afraid of the bark of a tree.</p> <h3><SPAN name="percy" id="percy"></SPAN>PENSIVE PERCY</h3> <p class="block14 nob">Percy when a little boy<br/> Was quiet as a mouse,<br/> He never set the barn afire<br/> Nor battered down the house.<br/> <br/> He used to sit for hours and hours<br/> Just gazing at the moon,<br/> And feeding little fishes<br/> Sarsaparilla from a spoon.</p> <div class="figcenterb" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-072bs.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="416" alt="Illustration 72b" title="" /> <br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-072bx.jpg"></SPAN></span></div> <div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-073s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="295" alt="Illustration 73" title="" /> <br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-073x.jpg"></SPAN></span></div> <h3><SPAN name="sky2" id="sky2"></SPAN>MOON, O MOON IN THE EMPTY SKY</h3> <p class="block20 b4">Moon, O Moon in the empty sky,<br/> Why do you swing so low?<br/> Pretty moon with the silver ring<br/> And the long bright beams where the fairies cling,<br/> Where do you always go?<br/> <br/> I go to the land of the Siamese,<br/> Ceylon and the Great Plateau,<br/> Over the seas where Sinbad sailed,<br/> Where Moses crossed and Pharaoh failed,—<br/> There’s where I always go.</p> <div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-074s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="515" alt="RAG-MAN, RAG-MAN, TAGGY, TAGGY, RAG-MAN" title="" /> <span class="caption">RAG-MAN, RAG-MAN, TAGGY, TAGGY, RAG-MAN</span> <br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-074x.jpg"></SPAN></span></div> <h3><SPAN name="man" id="man"></SPAN>THE RAG-MAN</h3> <p class="block19 b4">“Rag-man, rag-man,<br/> Taggy, taggy, rag-man,<br/> Tell us what you’ve got there in your sack.”<br/> <br/> “Oh—it’s full of rimes and riddles,<br/> Jingles, jokes, and hi-de-diddles—<br/> This bundle that I carry on my back.”<br/> <br/> “O tell us, funny rag-man,<br/> Grinny, skinny rag-man,<br/> Where did you pick up your funny rimes?”<br/> <br/> “Some were dancing with corn-flowers,<br/> Some were hiding in church-towers,<br/> And sprinkled helter-skelter by the chimes.”<br/> <br/> “Rag-man, rag-man,<br/> Nice old taggy rag-man,<br/> Sing us just one jingle, tingle song.”<br/> <br/> “Why, my dears, I’ve got a plenty,<br/> Sing you one? I’ll sing you twenty—<br/> I’ve been hoping you would ask me all along.”</p> <h3><SPAN name="walk" id="walk"></SPAN>WHENEVER I GO OUT TO WALK</h3> <p class="block13 nob">Whenever I go out to walk,<br/> All the geese begin to gawk;<br/> And when I start to wander back,<br/> All the ducks begin to quack.</p> <div class="figcenterb" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-075s.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="478" alt="Illustration 75" title="" /> <br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-075x.jpg"></SPAN></span></div> <div class="figcentert" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-076as.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="556" alt="Illustration 7a6" title="" /> <br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-076ax.jpg"></SPAN></span></div> <h3><SPAN name="show2" id="show2"></SPAN>A FREE SHOW</h3> <p class="block9 b4">Mister McCune<br/> Can whistle a tune,<br/> <br/> Old Uncle Strong<br/> Can sing us a song,<br/> <br/> Benjamin Biddle<br/> Can play on the fiddle,<br/> <br/> Captain O’Trigg<br/> Can dance us a jig,<br/> <br/> And I, if I’m able,<br/> Will tell you a fable.</p> <h3><SPAN name="bump" id="bump"></SPAN>BILLY BUMPKINS</h3> <p class="block14 nob">Heigho, Billy Bumpkins,<br/> How d’ you grow your pumpkins?<br/> “At six o’clock I sows ’em,<br/> At ten o’clock I hoes ’em,<br/> An’ jes before I goes to bed<br/> I puts ’em in the pumpkin shed.”<br/> <br/> Tell us, Billy Bumpkins,<br/> How d’ you sell your pumpkins?<br/> “I lends ’em to the ladies,<br/> I gives ’em to the babies,<br/> An’ trades a hundred for a kiss<br/> To any pretty little miss.”</p> <div class="figcenterb" style="width: 400px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i-076bs.jpg" width-obs="400" height-obs="335" alt="Illustration 76b" title="" /> <br/><span class="link"><SPAN href="images/i-076bx.jpg"></SPAN></span></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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