New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
The Village

Csnsan Niles, in The Nec Statesman
LIKE the butcher being not "the butcher
But Tom Crisp,
l. Old Crisp with the wooden legs son;
"a like the bakers boy being not "the
bakers boy"
Rot was Fretter,
ybo was such a siclly babe
NJ his mother never would have reared him,
Nos without she'd yummered him all roads.
iEte the driver Of the Whedtshedf brougham
Being not the driver,
81 Jonathan Arthur,
whose Eve pretty daughters
ibove seen successfully emerge
r-om sturdy childhood
~ slender. sedate and slim-ankled modernity.
Lie the verCer being Billy Watts,
whose hair curls as madly now
a. uben he was a little fellow in the Infants,
60 proud Of his new shoes.
like to have him bring me, when it has lost
button,
VIA. most people would call rochet
pnt what he describes as his allybub.
4 Tte his sister, though she is simple,
- sir,ple that when a stranger asked her who
she was,
She answered in confusion
WHY. please sir, I'm my brothers sister.
Ike his old gammer,
Mo attributes Bills bad eyes
IT, the fact that he washes his feet so fire.
ouently
"A fact. by the way that one would not have
guessed.
Che wipes her brow
ITbe Wattses permanently perspire)
Or maybe her nose,
tabic-fork,
Bv reason Of her rheumatics
Ike the two old dummies
4noxrr ,r1or IN fheir
Are a sight for a blGss cinematograph.
", sbould have seen them when an aeroplane
first passed over their cottage
And thew thought it was the Angel Of Judg-
ment, ,u>
like Dot Fretter,
Wbowben the Sunday lesson was on Pharaoh's
Was asked in introduction what you sometimes
had when you were asleep at night,
And answered PLEAS"
And Minnie Parker ,..
Who expressed her impressions as 70 Tic OiI'h
of Samuel
Bv dropping blocks into a box and saying
Here's the big Church,
And here's that woman Hammer, , -,
And here's our Parson wat give her the Ill
babe"
like old Mrs Roger Townley
Whose mantelpiece is crowded with qusck medi-
cine bottles
She's boen no better since she took the mixture,
But think she says, how much worse she might
have been
If she hadn't have taken 1t
! like old Mrs. Nathaniel Pike
Who wanders off each Sunday
To look for Dunch,
Though the poor old dame
Has never left the place since she was born.
! ike Miss Sarah Ann Kinchin
And her big straw hat cu,
Which depends from her ceiling and Is filled
With geraniums and dried lavender.
1t was chosen by the carrier, at Miss Kinchins
request,
And was intended to adorn
Her head
And fond as Miss Kinchin is of all dumb Great
She feels that it would not be becoming to imi-
tate
Their fashions.
Miss Kinchin keeps bath-chair in her coal
she'd
And though she has never sat IN 1t
And never means to sit in 1t,
She will not sell 1t
Because She has grown used TO the sight OF 1t
In her coal shed
And because it is a comfortable sleeping place
for the dear cats.
Each minute in advance of the next.
They purr or twang or bark or hiccup. at her
hcessantly from breakfast until bed time,
So that she can never feel really lonely. =,
Miss Kinchin loves to read the Christian Herald
And she sometimes passes a copy on TO me
That may the more fully discuss with her
Such problems
As that Of Ezekel's theory
OF the symbolism Of wheels.
She tells me that so few Of her neighbors
Seem really interested in EzekiePs theory
Of the symbolism
G wheels
Miss Kinchin at one time was dreadfully poor.
She even wrote poetry to help pay her rent.
But Of that she can hardly bear to speak,
Though the stationer was very kind
And attached the poems to his window pane
with geatine lozenges
And made no charge
She cannot sufficiently thank her Maker
That now she need no longer demean herself,
But can even afford
To rent second cottage for her kleptomanlac
sister.
That stolen goods should be brought beneath
her roof
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