PAUL'S REMARKS AT FOUR YEARS OF AGE.

"Fink I don't know what dat fing is,

All wrapped up in gwanma's lap?

I does; nurse told me so to-day,

It's my sisser tatin' a nap.

"She's only a piece of a day old now,

But she looks like any fing;

Wight out of her great eyes all boo,

An', ganpa, she can sing:

"There, don't you hear her, naughty dirl?

She skuled dat way—because

I feeled her foots, to see if 'em gowed

Like mine or pussy's claws.

"Sissers ain't nice to sing dat way,

And gwanma holds her snug;

I wouldn't cuy if her holded me,

All up in dat pwetty rug.

"Oh, yes, me knows, she's a sisser, she is,

An' I'm jess a boy, dat's all;

Sissers ain't dood for much, I fink,

Why, her couldn't hold my ball.

"Dess if I was made a piece of a day,

I would know some more dan dat;

No, ganpa, sissers ain't dood for much,

I'll do and find my cat."