News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-04-12
Essays Of Little Robbie
POETRY.

poetry iS WHARF you commence
every line with a capitol and maik
the ends of the lines sound like each
other, thare is many kinds OF poetry
and only few places to print it, SO
lots of men that maik poetry have to
ask the Relief Comfy for help for
themselves and thare familys.
the first poet was Adam, he said
The woman said it was sWeLe
And SO thought Ide eet.
the next poet was Hoamer he wrote
q lot of stuff about fitesorne Greeks
had at plase called Troy he called
his poetry the Illyud or something
and it is hard to reed bGekaus the lines
doant sound the saim at the ends
but then he Was doing the best he
cud.
other poets were SHAKESPEARE and
Ella Wilcox, she is lady poet and
used to rite things about foaks
throwing thare arms around eech
other and kissing till the wurld did
end, and all such stuff, but when she
got older she got ashamed guess
and now she says doant throw yure
arms around each other, it amt nice.
The greatest poet think was Mis-
ter Longfellow beekaus he wrote
about Hiawatha shooting deer and
fishing for perch and pickerel, and
that's the best thing poet can rite
about think.
poets are nice men to have around
beekaus they maik your heart lighter
and spend thare mummy like drunken
salers and If you are friend of thares
you can git part of the mummy all
rite. if poets cud maIk mummy as fast
as Mister Carnegie thay wud show
people how to split the wood.
BoOKKEEPERs.
bookkeepers Is men that started
that way and amt got nurv enutf to
change thare job.
in the morning thay come to the
office before thare boss, and thay
take the books and look to see how
much the boss has got coming to
him and the moar thay see the better
thay feel, | doant know why beekaus
thay only git thare saim salary any
way.
my uncle is a bookeeper, he gets ten
a week and that's lots of mummy for
him beekaus he amt got a gurl, Pa
says gurls doant go much on book
keepers thay Wud rather have book
makers.
wudent care to be a bookkeeper
beekaus | cant fgger very good bnt
Il nI11 liEn RI no nd
turn summersets i | bet thay wud
pay me moar mummy than if | was
adding 2 & 2
War is WHARF two cOuDtrys git mad
about sum land thay both want to
grab & then thay have scrap with
thare lungs and then thay 90 to it
with guns 4 cannons Il soards, thare
has been lots of wars In this wurld, 2
of them was the war of the revoushun
and the war OF the rebelyun, in the
LIST we fought with england and what
we did to them was lot. washing
ton was our captain and he stayed
at Valley Foarge with his army until
thay got cold feet and went away
from thare and fought the english so
hard that the english laid down.
in the war OF the rebelyun Abe Lin
kun said thare should be no slaves
beekaus guess he dident own any
and he mite have been Jealous, but
anyhow all the southern gents sharp
ened thare soards and loaded thare
guns and said well, let us git busy
with the Noarth.
in this war lots of men was killed,
my Pa went but he dident git killed.
Ma says he must have been behind a
stump beekaus he was a big mark
and thay cud shute him if hestood up
like man, and Pa says Well notice
you grab my penshun every month
jest the same, and Ma says Well, why
Student i, yure penshun is all thare
is to you.
iguess we have about as much war
In our hoam as thare is anywhere, it
is like the Rushun wal; Ma is the Japs
and Pa is Kuropatkin, he always
quits and runs away suner or later.
Sentinel.