ELSIE MINGUS @3lisps@1, she does! She lives wite acrosst from us In Miz. Ayers'uz house 'at she Rents part to the Mingusuz. -- Yes, an' Elsie plays wiv me. Elsie lisps so, she can't say Her own name, ist @3anyway!@1 -- She say "@3Elthy"@1 -- like they wuz Feathers on her words, an' they Ist stick on her tongue like fuzz. @3My!@1 she's @3purty@1, though! -- An' when She @3lisps@1, w'y, she's purty @3nen!@1 When she telled me, wunst, her doll Wuz so "thweet," an' I p'ten' @3I@1 lisp too, -- she laugh' -- 'at's all! -- @3She@1 don't never git mad none -- 'Cause she know I'm ist in fun. -- Elsie she ain't one bit sp'iled. -- Of all childerns -- ever' one -- She's the @3ladylikest@1 child! -- My Ma @3say@1 she is! One time Elsie start to say the rhyme "Thing a thong o' thixpenth" -- @3Whee!@1 I ist @3yell!@1 An' Ma say I'm Unpolite as I can be! Wunst I went wiv Ma to call On Elsie's Ma, an' eat an' all; An' nen Elsie, when we've et, An' we're playin' in the hall, Elsie say: It's etikett Fer young gentlemens, like me, Eatin' when they's @3company,@1 Not to never ever crowd Down their food, ner "thip their tea Ner thup thoop so awful loud!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AGAINST HOPE by ABRAHAM COWLEY CROTALUS by FRANCIS BRET HARTE MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 4 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI TO MY FRIEND MR. THOMAS FLATMAN, ON THE PUBLISHING OF THESE HIS POEMS by FRANCIS BARNARD (D. 1698) THE SCHOONER by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN CROMWELL'S REFLECTIONS ON 'KILLING NO MURDER' by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON |