Living
The Boys' Candidate
From Riley Child-Rhymes (1905)
Living
Las' time 'at Uncle Sidney come,
He bringed a watermelon home--
An' half the boys in town,
Come taggin' after him.--An' he
Says, when we et it,--_"Gracious me!
'S the boy-house fell down?"_
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Riley, James Whitcomb. “The Boys' Candidate.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/riley/28/.
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Riley, James Whitcomb. “The Boys' Candidate.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/riley/28/.
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