Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Little Girl)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

"What is the gas-stove going for?"
Asked Files-On-Parade.
"To curl my hair, to curl my hair?"
His Little Sister said.

"What makes you curl so tight, so tight?"
Asked Files-On-Parade.
"I'm thinkin' 'twill be damp to-night,"
His Little Sister said.

"For you know that when I'm good, I'm just as good as I can be.
And when I'm bad, there's nobody can be as bad as me.
So I'm thinkin' I'll be very good to-night, because, you see,
I'm thinkin' I'll be horrid in the morning."

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A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Rudyard Kipling as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Little Girl).

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Little Girl).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/271/.

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Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Rudyard Kipling (Little Girl).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/271/.

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