<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416804" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Little Fat Doctor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He seemed so strange to me, every way--<br>In manner, and form, and size,<br>From the boy I knew but yesterday,--<br>I could hardly believe my eyes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To hear his name called over there,<br>My memory thrilled with glee<br>And leaped to picture him young and fair<br>In youth, as he used to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But looking, only as glad eyes can,<br>For the boy I knew of yore,<br>I smiled on a portly little man<br>I had never seen before!--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grave as a judge in courtliness--<br>Professor-like and bland--<br>A little fat doctor and nothing less,<br>With his hat in his kimboed hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But how we talked old times, and 'chaffed'<br>Each other with 'Minnie' and 'Jim'---<br>And how the little fat doctor laughed,<br>And how I laughed with him!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And it's pleasant,' I thought, 'though I yearn to see<br>The face of the youth that was,<br>To know no boy could smile on me<br>As the little fat doctor does!'</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416804" data-title="The Little Fat Doctor de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="He seemed so strange to me, every way-- In manner, and form, and size, From the boy I knew but yesterday,-- I could hardly believe my eyes! To hear his name called over there, My memory thrilled with glee And leaped to picture him young and fair ..."></div> </div> </div>

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