For The Children

Mamma, hij dear, if a robber should come A trrib!n robber, on inighf, you see I d frighten him off with my Bword and drum And you would be perfectíy safe with me. ' And if you aud lina lonely wood Should meet a bear ai we walked semeday, With my bnws and arrows, Jike Kooin Hood, I would drive the tiercé old bear away. But now I ntn tired, and aleepy too, Aud I wlalimy mamiim would lift raeiiowa Xüere s a laughiug Un.k in her eyes of blue As thej answer her boy' so big and brown. 5h feels on her üps hi8 waxing touch, fahe claBpi him fast in h. r lovine liold n '!he ul'mu.r ri(vrfear robber much, Unless he ehould sti-al ihis liwrt of gold