Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LISPING IN NUMBERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: We' got a' uncle writes poetry
Last Line: "it's a purty good little poetry-piece!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Numbers; Poetry & Poets; Speech Disorders; Uncles; Stuttering; Muteness


WE' got a' Uncle writes poetryrhymes
Fer me an' Eddie to speak, sometimes, --
'Cause he's a poet -- an' he gits paid
Fer poetry-writin', -- 'cause that's his trade.
An' Eddie says he's goin' to try
To be a poet, too, by an' by
When he's a man! -- an' I 'spect he is,
'Cause on his slate wunst he print' this
An' call it

"THE SQUIRL AND THE FUNY LITEL GIRL"
"A litel girl
Whose name wuz Perl
Went to the woods to play.
The day wuz brite,
An' her hart wuz lite
As she galy skiped a way.

"A queer litel chatter,
A soft litel patter,
She herd in the top of a tree:
The surprized litel Perl
Saw a qute litel squirl,
As cuning as cuning cud be.

"She twisted her curl,
As she looked at the squirl,
An' playfully told it 'good day!'
She calld it 'Bunny' --
Wuzent that funy?
An' it noded an' bounded a way."

Ma read it, an' says "she's awful proud," --
An' Pa says "Splen'id!" an' laugh' out loud;
But Uncle says, "You can talk as you please,
It's a purty good little poetry-piece!"





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