You've each a favorite, it appears,—
Summer and Winter and Spring and Fall.—
That's the reason I send them all!
THOMAS THE PRETENDER
Tommy's alluz playin' jokes,
An' actin' up, an' foolin' folks;
An' wunst one time he creep
In Pa's big chair, he did, one night,
An' squint an' shut his eyes bofe tight,