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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416789" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Happy Little Cripple</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm thist a little cripple boy, an' never goin' to grow<br>An' get a great big man at all!--'cause Aunty told me so.<br>When I was thist a baby onc't, I falled out of the bed<br>An' got 'The Curv'ture of the Spine'--'at's what the Doctor said.<br>I never had no Mother nen--fer my Pa runned away<br>An' dassn't come back here no more--'cause he was drunk one day<br>An' stobbed a man in thish-ere town, an' couldn't pay his fine!<br>An' nen my Ma she died--an' I got 'Curv'ture of the Spine!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm nine years old! An' you can't guess how much I weigh, I bet!--<br>Last birthday I weighed thirty-three!--An' I weigh thirty yet!<br>I'm awful little fer my size--I'm purt' nigh littler 'nan<br>Some babies is!--an' neighbers all calls me 'The Little Man!'<br>An' Doc one time he laughed an' said: 'I 'spect, first thing you know,<br>You'll have a little spike-tail coat an' travel with a show!'<br>An' nen I laughed--till I looked round an' Aunty was a-cryin'--<br>Sometimes she acts like that, 'cause I got 'Curv'ture of the Spine.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I set--while Aunty's washin'--on my little long-leg stool,<br>An' watch the little boys an' girls a-skippin' by to school;<br>An' I peck on the winder, an' holler out an' say:<br>'Who wants to fight The Little Man 'at dares you all today?'<br>An', nen the boys climbs on the fence, an' little girls peeks through,<br>An' they all says: 'Cause you're so big, you think we're 'feared o' you!'<br>An' nen they yell, an' shake their fist at me, like I shake mine--<br>They're thist in fun, you know, 'cause I got 'Curv'ture of the Spine!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At evening, when the ironin's done, an' Aunty's fixed the fire,<br>An' filled an' lit the lamp, an' trimmed the wick an' turned it higher,<br>An' fetched the wood all in fer night, an' locked the kitchen door,<br>An' stuffed the ole crack where the wind blows in up through the floor--<br>She sets the kittle on the coals, an' biles an' makes the tea,<br>An' fries the liver an' the mush, an' cooks a egg fer me;<br>An' sometimes--when I cough so hard--her elderberry wine<br>Don't go so bad fer little boys with 'Curv'ture of the Spine!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Aunty's all so childish-like on my account, you see,<br>I'm 'most afeard she'll be took down--an' 'at's what bothers me!--<br>'Cause ef my good old Aunty ever would git sick an' die,<br>I don't know what she'd do in heaven--till _I_ come, by an' by:--<br>Fer she's so ust to all my ways, an' ever'thing, you know,<br>An' no one there like me, to nuss an' worry over so!--<br>'Cause all the little childerns there's so straight an' strong an' fine,<br>They's nary angel 'bout the place with 'Curv'ture of the Spine!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q>
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An' get a great big man at all!--'cause Aunty told me so.
When I was thist a baby onc't, I falled out of the bed
An' got 'The Curv'ture of the Spine'--'at's what the Doctor said.
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