p. 921 | AND SO HE DID by Nannie Camm Sutton

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 17, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 58.

AND SO HE DID.

By Nannie Camm Sutton

He begged nurse let him dress himself, for now that he was five, He knew he could, and just as well as any boy alive. So, nurse consenting, down he sat, and, wrong side out, each stocking Pulled on, and snapt a garter strap with swiftness truly shocking, Yea, in a trice had buttoned on his left shoe for the right one, Wherefrom three buttons popped with speed that fairly did affright one. Then from the drawer a nice clean collar fetched, and put it on him. (But 'twas his little sister's best, and dark she glared upon him.) And so he worked, till, last of all, with brush a-running water All down his pinky shirt waist front—just where it never "oughter"— He went to nurse, and, quoth he, as he doubtfully eyed o'er His little breeches with great care arranged hind part before, "You thee I did it, nurth." (Alack! but "nurth" stood consternated To see him so, while he, serene, his satisfaction stated.) "Ith all wight 'cep' juth one thing" (nurse's eyes bulged in their sockets), "I'll have to juth walk backward to get my hands in my pockets." —Nannie Camm Sutton.