“See How Strong I Am.”

So strong are you, my baby? I see that very plain; For you can hold above your head Papa’s big, heavy cane. Why, soon you can be lifting, For your mamma, the chairs; Or bringing heavy books to her, Or helping her up-stairs. Then you can mail her letters, And run her errands, too; There is no end of all the things My baby soon will do. You soon will be quite manly, Too soon, mamma thinks, dear; For she’d like to keep her baby Many, many a year.