Little Joe-Johnny
LELLE KARL-JOHAN
" Little Joe-Johnny, —
Is n't he bonny?
Takes after mother, the good little dear!
Look how he blows now
In 's fist his nose now
Just as his pa does, — Joe-Johnny, come here!
" Look! how politely
He bows, and how brightly
Shine the long curls of our little Joe-Johnny.
Hoho! my sonny
Has all the manners of grown folk, you see.
Yes, and he 's able to
Quote from the Bible too,
Well as the dean, priest, and sexton, all three.
" Tell me, Joe-Johnny, what was it that Moses —
Look how your nose is! —
Promised the Jews in the words of the law,
If they would honor their pa and their ma?
" Now you shall hear why our little Joe-Johnny
Should be a priest when he 's grown a bit more, "
So said his mother, caressing Joe-Johnny.
But — awful to tell! —
When she was done, he
Swore
Stoutly and gruffly: " Oh, ma, go to hell! "
" Little Joe-Johnny, —
Is n't he bonny?
Takes after mother, the good little dear!
Look how he blows now
In 's fist his nose now
Just as his pa does, — Joe-Johnny, come here!
" Look! how politely
He bows, and how brightly
Shine the long curls of our little Joe-Johnny.
Hoho! my sonny
Has all the manners of grown folk, you see.
Yes, and he 's able to
Quote from the Bible too,
Well as the dean, priest, and sexton, all three.
" Tell me, Joe-Johnny, what was it that Moses —
Look how your nose is! —
Promised the Jews in the words of the law,
If they would honor their pa and their ma?
" Now you shall hear why our little Joe-Johnny
Should be a priest when he 's grown a bit more, "
So said his mother, caressing Joe-Johnny.
But — awful to tell! —
When she was done, he
Swore
Stoutly and gruffly: " Oh, ma, go to hell! "
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