Mary A. P. Humphrey.
“MAYN’T I BE A BOY?”
“Mayn’t I be a boy?” said our Mary,
The tears in her great eyes blue;
“I’m only a wee little lassie—
There’s nothing a woman can do.
“’Tis so; I heard Cousin John say so—
He’s home from a great college, too—
He said so just now in the parlor;
‘There’s nothing a woman can do.’”