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[Illustration: SONNETS OF A BUDDING BARD]
_Sometimes I get to wishin’ I might be A little lamb like Mary’s, fond and true, With Susan Sanderson as Mary, see? We’d play amidst the clover sweet with dew, And everywhere that she wast there’d be me, And if she wasn’t, I’dst be elsewhere, too._
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I. Lines Wrote in School Whilst I Shouldst Have Been Studyin’ My Lesson
II. Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin’ about Mary and Her Pet Lamb
III. Lines Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ about How Pa Acts When Dressin’ Up
IV. Lines Wrote Whilst Realizin’ We Oughtst to Be Kind to Dumb Brutes
V. Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ of Our Parents in the Garden of Eden
VI. Lines Wrote Whilst Smartin’ from Punishment Received for Lyin’
VII. Thoughts Thought about Ma’s Notions Regardin’ Love and House-keepin’
VIII. Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin’ of Peary on a Hot Summer Day
IX. Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin’ of a Thanksgivin’ Day Turkey
X. Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ of My Sister Maymie’s Homely Beau
XI. Lines Wrote Whilst Recovering from an Accident Caused by a Hornet
XII. Lines Wrote on a Summer Day Whilst Thinkin’ of a Soda Fountain
XIII. Lines Wrote After Bein’ Scolded for Not Doin’ as Children Used To
XIV. Lines Wrote On Readin’ How Cleopatra Made Men Act Very Foolish
XV. Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ What I Wouldst Do with Carnegie’s Gold
XVI. Some Thoughts Thought Whilst Havin’ to Bathe in a Bath-tub
XVII. Lines Wrote in School Whilst Throwin’ Glances at Susan Sanderson
XVIII. Thoughts Thought Whilst Mowin’ the Lawn on a Saturday Afternoon
XIX. Sonnet Wrote on the Fly-leaf of My Grammar Durin’ School Hours
XX. Thoughts Thought on Hearin’ Folks Find Fault with the Weather
XXI. Lines Wrote After Seein’ Shakespeare’s Hamlet from an Upper Gallery
XXII. Sonnet Wrote Whilst Retrospectively Contemplatin’ My First Cigar
XXIII. Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ About a Vacation Spent on a Farm
XXIV. Lines Composed After Seein’ a Book Full of Byron’s Love Letters
XXV. Sonnet Wrote After Hearin’ a Youth Oratin’ about “Casabianca”