Mending Day
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How quickly children's clothes will rip and tear Each time I put off mending till so late, I relize that a family of eight Can give a loving mother lots of care. If more get born I really do declare I'll put em into bed and make em wait. My brother hopes to learn to operate. But there is not a child that I would spare. He's borrowed three that he pertends are dead. But I won't even think of such thin! And yet at mending time I've often said I almost wished - though p'raps it is a sin That God has sent some paper dolls instead Whose clothes are only painted on their skin. A child preparing to clothe her dolls while she sits on steps |
