The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-10-02
For Young Readers.
ALL ON ACCOUNT OF a LITTLE
CHICKEN.

A RECITATION FOR EIGHT LITTLE GIRLS.
First Little Girl.
A wonderful story will tell:
A chicken crept from broken shell,
And, standing on its tiny feet
1t peeped and peeped for a crumb to eat
On beautiful summer morning.
Second Little Girl.
But out of dark hole popped the head
OF an old gray rat; with Il cautious tread
He stole along where the grass was thick
And quickly bounced on the peeping chick
That, standing on its tiny feet,
Was crying for crumb to eat
On beautiful summer morning.
Third Little Girl
Then out of doorway leaped a cat,
That put her paw on the old gray rat,
That out of dark hole popped his head,
And crept along with cautious tread,
And a cruelloOk, where the grass was thick, !
To quickly pounce on the peeping chick,
That, standing on its tiny feet,
Was crying for a crumb to eat
On a beautiful summer morning.
Fourth Lite G6L
Around the corner there fiercely flew
A savage dog. of a yellow hue,
That fixed his teeth in the tabby cat,
That put her paw on the old gray rat,
TtaJ out OF a dark hole popped his head,
, al crept along with cautious tread
And cruel look where the grass was thick
L
That standing on its tiny feet,
Was crying for a crumb to eat
On beautiful summer morning.
Fifth Little Girl.
But a naughty boy with a wicked Sing
OF a crotched stick and a rubber string,
Looked over the fence with mean INTENT,
And smooth, round pebble swiftly sent,
That struck the dog of a yellow hue,
That round the corner fiercely Hew,
And fixed his teeth in the tabby cat,
That put her paw on the old gray rat,
That out of dark hole popped his head,
And crept along with a cautious tread
And a cruel look where the grass was thick,
To quickly pounce on the peeping chick,
That, standing on its TRY feet,
Mas CRYING for crumb to eat
On a beautiful summer morning
Sixth Little Girl.
Next came man on the double quick
Who beat the boy with blackthorn stick,
For hurting his dog of yellow hue,
That round the corner f1ercely flew,
And fixed his teeth in the tabby cat,
That put her paw on the old gray rat,
That out OF q dark hole popped his head,
And crept along with cautious tread
And cruel look, where the grass was thick,
To quickly pounce on the peeping chick,
That, standing on its tiny feet,
Was crying for crumb to eat
On a beautiful summer morning.
Seuenth Little Girl.
The tumult caught the watchful eye
OF a tall policeman passing by,
Who, walking up with pompous tread,
Arrested and nearly broke the head
OF the man who came on the double quick
To beat tie boy with blackthorn stick,
For hurting his dog of yellow hue,
That round the corner fercely flew,
And fixed his teeth in the tabby cat,
| That put her paw. on the old gray rat,
| That out of dark hole popped his head.
| And crept along with a cautious tread
| And cruel look where the grass was thick
To quickly pounce on the peeping chick,
| That, standing on its tiny teet
| Was crying for a crumb to eat
On Il beautiful summer morning.
Eighth Little Girl.
| In a court of justice sternly sat
! The portly Judge, in a white cravat,
| Who told the sheriff, for lack of bail,
/ To put the man in the cou. ty jail,
| Who came in sight on the double quick
| To beat the boy with blaekthorn stick,
| For hurting his dog of yellow hue,
That round the corner Hereby few,
| And fixed his teeth in the tabby cat,
| That put her paw on the old gray rat,
/ That out of dark hole popped his head
| And crept along with a cautious tread
1 And a cruel look where the grass was thick,
| To quickly pounee on the peeping chick,
| That, standing on its tiny feet,
| Was crying for crumb to eat
On beautiful summer morning.
al Together.
| The greatest evil often springs
1 From the i'll effects of the smallest things;
| And all this trouble on many fell
| Through a little chick from broken she'll
| On a beautiful summer morning.
-EugeHe j Hal, IN Chicago Inter Ocean.