Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — SAYINGS and DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAYINGS and DOINGS

By Mary Marshall Partes

Little girl! Little girl! Little girl! Don’t you hear me calling from the meadow by the brook. Where violets are peeping up in every sunny nook. Where bluets brave are standing, with their faces to the sky, Watching for gleams of sunshine through the clouds that scurry by? Little boy! Little boy! Little boyi Don’t yeu hear me calling from the pussy-willow tree, \ Where the robins and the pussies live / in peace and harmony, While the drowsy woodchuck wakens \ from his quiet winter nap, And frisky squirrels dance in time to the woodpecker’s tap, tap, tap? Little girl! Little boy! Little girll Come, I’ll tell to you a secret that my sister May told me, There’s to be a grand May party dow* beside the old oak tree; All the sweet spring flowers are coming, and the brook and birds will sing, And the little girl shall be May Queen and the little boy May King. Little boy! Little girl! Come and see! , —Rogers, Ark.