The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-07-02
Fourth O. July!

Fourth O. July!
(By Stella Flowers Hasting b lsdwest Magazine)
July coming round yos bst!
I'm savn penAiss. for I'm gotAg 70 get
Some 6recrsckers. some sparkiess an . flag.
A pistol an cannon. whissss an b'oon. +
Awhrlagig fireworks II 1t doat come too
Ma says will have broken tooth pulled out {
Without sqsirming or fuss or holes
When July Fourth comes roln round.
I'll \ big silver dollar.
Ma thinks I'm the finest. coolest boy that is
sweeer than sugar an every kind Of honey,
hant, but I'm trying to be. Gee whzz!
love Ma an O! want the moaey
To spend with all my pards ON July Fourth
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July Fourth is coming round bet!
Us Kids will have lot of things. all We get
Walt we're pards
We're goin' to build fort in back yards
About mile long, of sticks an stone an dirt x
Well set the kids won't get hurt,
Pa says to shoot them off at regular Intervals
says that uf don't. the whole darn fort
Will all blow sky high. quick a wink.
Boom boom boom, boom-the enemys ship will sink
Bob an Walt an will all be dead,
Killed the awful shot an shell Of the Spnyards,
just can't sleep for thnkin of my psrds
An all the fun we'll have on July Fourth.
July Is comm. hurrah! bet
The circus is comm too. An I'm going to
see everything there in that whole
There's Jim he'll cost me 25 an Walt will too
An there's Bob an mep whatever will do?
I've got a whole big dollar pennies few
To spend. Us kids will want some gum to chew
IN could wisse Underwent the tent.
they could work right they woAint cost cent
The kind they make with water an stir in the shade
An peanuts an popcorn I'm very much afraid
Ill spend that whole big dollar July Fourth.
July Fourth is coming round you
When get that great big dollar I'll set
Right down and figure out what can buy for Ma
There amt in all the earth love like her an Pa
She takes the coolest of an big ball
An books an desk an cracker-jack an all
When get hurt the leastest bit, bump or fall
. 1t hurts her twice much it does
But Ma. she knows just how feler feels, you see,
Ma lets us kids all have party day.
An spoils all, to beat the band, the neghbors
But Ma don't she doesn't fuss fret
Us kids is g0in' to treat her right! you bet,
An buy her everything she likes July Fourth ~-,@
IN July Fourth my Pa an
We're all gcing a-fshn just
Matson's Mills: :, he grandest place earth, ~s~~-
Ma says. She the all falls down
Just like cataract Ma below the dam
There's lots O. rpples, where the basses bites
Just fine Above the dam the waters deep an cam,
An Pa says that old mill is just chuck full
OF bins an hoppers an wheels that grind
An more nice things for little boys find!
An Pa says, the limbs on the trees hang over so low
can set on them an dangle legs in the water below
Now amt it nice to a happy
With such a Ma an Pa July Fourth? $50
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On July Fourth, We'll lunch Pa says
Every kind o. things to
l like cream sundaes made 49,
wonder what them things is called other days.
never heard cause Pa an me have very much to
We only get them when the Sabbath day
Pa says the clover fields n there
That you can smell them in the evening air.
ia says he wants to stretch right out most anywhere,
An hear the bumbebees just among the grain,
The most meodious ever
He says the locust joins right in an the birds do
An him an me will cuddle down in that tall grass,
An he'll feel like little boy
Just like he used to do July Fourth.
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