The Boy and the Bogie.
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A little boy with curly hair,
Was walking through the meadows fair,
When all at once, upon the ground,
A funny-looking thing he found.
He picked it up, and turned it o'er,
And wondered what it could be for,
It had four legs, which seemed to bend,
With feathers growing at one end.
He took it home, “Look here,” said he,
“I cannot think what this can be!”
But, with a laugh says sister Moll,
“Why! Can't you see, That it's a doll?”
I wonder if he's jealous, says little Tommy Page,
As he holds his own sham bunnie against the rabbit's cage;
But father says he'll give to me another one some day,
So then you'll have a little friend to stay with you alway.
