Just Like Me.
“Now Annie, be quiet,” I sharply say,
“I have had enough of your noise to-day,
And I think it is time you tried to be good,
And behave yourself as a little girl should.
Why do you persist in acting so?
You’re the naughtiest little girl I know.”
I pause, and Nan looks demurely down
To hide the gleam in her eyes so brown,
Then says: “Dear Auntie, I s’pose it’s so,
I am very naughty, but then you know
Grandma says that you used to be,
When you were a little girl, just like me.
“She says you played ‘hookey’ ’most every day
With Uncle Eddie down to the Bay,
And you two used to fight like cats and dogs,
And push one another off the logs
In the shallow water, just for fun,
Then sit on the logs and dry in the sun.
And you used to run the big boom ’round,
And once you fell in and were nearly drowned.
But some men heard Uncle Eddie shout
And came just in time to pull you out.
