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CONTENTS

SONNET PAGE
I.[Lines Wrote in School Whilst I Shouldst Have Been Studyin’ My Lesson]11
II.[Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin’ about Mary and Her Pet Lamb]13
III.[Lines Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ about How Pa Acts When Dressin’ Up]15
IV.[Lines Wrote Whilst Realizin’ We Oughtst to Be Kind to Dumb Brutes]17
V.[Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ of Our Parents in the Garden of Eden]19
VI.[Lines Wrote Whilst Smartin’ from Punishment Received for Lyin’]21
VII.[Thoughts Thought about Ma’s Notions Regardin’ Love and House-keepin’]23
VIII.[Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin’ of Peary on a Hot Summer Day]25
IX.[Thoughts Thought Whilst Thinkin’ of a Thanksgivin’ Day Turkey]27
X.[Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ of My Sister Maymie’s Homely Beau]29
XI.[Lines Wrote Whilst Recovering from an Accident Caused by a Hornet]31
XII.[Lines Wrote on a Summer Day Whilst Thinkin’ of a Soda Fountain]33
XIII.[Lines Wrote After Bein’ Scolded for Not Doin’ as Children Used To]35
XIV.[Lines Wrote On Readin’ How Cleopatra Made Men Act Very Foolish]37
XV.[Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ What I Wouldst Do with Carnegie’s Gold]39
XVI.[Some Thoughts Thought Whilst Havin’ to Bathe in a Bath-tub]41
XVII.[Lines Wrote in School Whilst Throwin’ Glances at Susan Sanderson]43
XVIII.[Thoughts Thought Whilst Mowin’ the Lawn on a Saturday Afternoon]45
XIX.[Sonnet Wrote on the Fly-leaf of My Grammar Durin’ School Hours]47
XX.[Thoughts Thought on Hearin’ Folks Find Fault with the Weather]49
XXI.[Lines Wrote After Seein’ Shakespeare’s Hamlet from an Upper Gallery]51
XXII.[Sonnet Wrote Whilst Retrospectively Contemplatin’ My First Cigar]53
XXIII.[Sonnet Wrote Whilst Thinkin’ About a Vacation Spent on a Farm]55
XXIV.[Lines Composed After Seein’ a Book Full of Byron’s Love Letters]57
XXV.[Sonnet Wrote After Hearin’ a Youth Oratin’ about “Casabianca”]59

SONNETS OF A BUDDING BARD

[LINES WROTE IN SCHOOL WHILST I SHOULDST HAVE BEEN STUDYIN’ MY LESSON]