THE RECONCILIATION OF PA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2097, 25 January 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE RECONCILIATION OF PA.

(By James W. Foley.) My Pa, lio’s disappointed tuz I ain’t a boy. ’At is Ho ain’t now, but lie used to was. lie likes mo tuz I’m his An’ buys mo lots ot toys aid things; but when I first begun Mu said lie’s awful fond of boys, an ist wished 1 was one. But now he don’t care any more, tuz I’m growed up so nice Ho likes’ me better ’n before, an there ain’t any price ’At you could offer him for mo an he would take it- tuz j I’m so much nicer, don’t you see, an my Pa thought I was.

(Wen I’m come first my Ala said ’at lie ’ud Tuther I ’Uil been a boy the stork ’ud brought; she says she don’t see w’y, Tuz she list thinks at little dilrs are awfu’ nice! Ail’ we’ll. You wash ’eir faco an’ brush eir turls, ’ey’re nicer’n over ’em But he is disappointed tuz at first lie didn’t know How ril'ly truly nice I was; but w’en I came to grow He wouldn’t take'the world for me, so -he told Ala, ist tuz I’m so much nicer, don’t you see, ’nil my Pa thought I was.

An’ my Ma says ’at if I grow up ist so nice an’ sweet As I am now, my Pa’ll know ’at stork was hard to beat; An’ be won’t never wish again ’at I’m a boy, ist tuz He’ll know how sweet I am, an’ ’en lie’s glad I’m w’at- 1 was, Tuz boys are awful nice at first, ’at is, you think they are; But w’en they’re bigger thev’re ist the worst! An’ dirls is hotter far, An’ Ala says if you want ’em sweet, i6t sweet as sweet can be, You’ll find it awful hard to find a little dirl like me.