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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Love Sonnets of an Office Boy + +Author: Samuel Ellsworth Kiser + +Illustrator: John T. McCutcheon + +Release Date: January 14, 2012 [EBook #38572] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE SONNETS OF AN OFFICE BOY *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, David E. Brown and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="giant">LOVE SONNETS OF AN<br/> +OFFICE BOY</span></p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/frontis.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">Love Sonnets of an<br /> +Office Boy</span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><span class="big">By</span></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">Samuel Ellsworth Kiser</span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center"><span class="big">Illustrated by<br /> +John T. McCutcheon</span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/title.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">Forbes & Company</span><br/> +<span class="big">Boston and Chicago<br /> +1902</span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center"><i>Copyright, 1902</i><br /> +<span class="smcap">By Samuel Ellsworth Kiser</span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center">Published by arrangement with<br /> +<span class="smcap">The Chicago Record-Herald</span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class="center">Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed<br /> +by C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A.</p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">LOVE SONNETS OF AN<br/> +OFFICE BOY</span></p> + + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">I.</span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> + +<tr><td> +Oh, if you only knowed how much I like<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To stand here, when the "old man" ain't around,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And watch your soft, white fingers while you pound</span><br /> +Away at them there keys! Each time you strike<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It almost seems to me as though you'd found</span><br /> +Some way, while writin' letters, how to play<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sweet music on that thing, because the sound</span><br /> +Is something I could listen to all day.<br /> +<br /> +You're twenty-five or six and I'm fourteen,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And you don't hardly ever notice me—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But when you do, you call me Willie! Gee,</span><br /> +I wisht I'd bundles of the old long green<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And could be twenty-eight or nine or so,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And something happened to your other beau.</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<p> </p> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="huge">II.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +I heard the old man scoldin' yesterday<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Because your spellin' didn't suit him quite;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He said you'd better go to school at night,</span><br /> +And you was rattled when he turned away;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">You had to tear the letter up and write</span><br /> +It all again, and when nobody seen<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I went and dented in his hat for spite:</span><br /> +That's what he got for treatin' you so mean.<br /> +<br /> +I wish that you typewrote for me and we<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was far off on an island, all alone;</span><br /> +I'd fix a place up under some nice tree,<br /> +And every time your fingers struck a key<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I'd grab your hands and hold them in my own,</span><br /> +And any way you spelt would do for me.</td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i007.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">III.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +I wish a fire'd start up here, some day,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And all the rest would run away from you—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The boss and that long-legged bookkeeper, too,</span><br /> +That you keep smilin' at—and after they<br /> +Was all down-stairs you'd holler out and say:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Won't no one come and save me? Must I choke</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And die alone here in the heat and smoke?</span><br /> +Oh, cowards that they was to run away!"<br /> +<br /> +And then I'd come and grab you up and go<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Out through the hall and down the stairs, and when</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I got you saved the crowd would cheer, and then</span><br /> +They'd take me to the hospital, and so<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">You'd come and stay beside me there and cry</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And say you'd hate to live if I would die.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i009.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">IV.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +Yesterday I stood behind your chair<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When you was kind of bendin' down to write,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I could see your neck, so soft and white,</span><br /> +And notice where the poker singed your hair,<br /> +And then you looked around and seen me there,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And kind of smiled, and I could seem to feel</span><br /> +A sudden empty, sinkish feelin' where<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I'm all filled up when I've just e't a meal.</span><br /> +<br /> +Dear Frankie, where your soft, sweet finger tips<br /> +Hit on the keys I often touch my lips,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And wunst I kissed your little overshoe,</span><br /> +And I have got a hairpin that you wore—<br /> +One day I found it on the office floor—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I'd throw my job up if they fired you.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">V.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +She's got a dimple in her chin, and, oh,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">How soft and smooth it looks; her eyes are blue;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The red seems always tryin' to peep through</span><br /> +The middle of her cheeks. I'd like to go<br /> +And lay my face up next to hers and throw<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My arms around her neck, with just us two</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Alone together, but not carin' who</span><br /> +Might scold if they should see us actin' so.<br /> +<br /> +If I would know that some poor girl loved me<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As much as I do her, sometimes I'd take</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her in my arms a little while and make</span><br /> +Her happy just for kindness, and to see<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The pleased look that acrost her face'd break,</span><br /> +And hear the sighs that showed how glad she'd be.</td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">VI.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +When you're typewritin' and that long-legged clerk<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Tips back there on his chair and smiles at you,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And you look up and get to smilin', too,</span><br /> +I'd like to go and give his chair a jerk<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And send him flyin' till his head went through</span><br /> +The door that goes out to the hall, and when<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">They picked him up he'd be all black and blue</span><br /> +And you'd be nearly busted laughin' then.<br /> +<br /> +But if I done it, maybe you would run<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And hold his head and smooth his hair and say</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It made you sad that he got dumped that way,</span><br /> +And I'd get h'isted out for what I done—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I wish that he'd get fired and you'd stay</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And suddenly I'd be a man some day.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i013.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">VII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +If I was grown to be a man, and you<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And all the others that are workin' here</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was always under me, and I could clear</span><br /> +The place to-morrow if I wanted to,<br /> +I'd buy an easy chair all nice and new<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And get a bird to sing above your head,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And let you set and rest all day, instead</span><br /> +Of hammerin' them keys the way you do.<br /> +<br /> +I'd bounce that long-legged clerk and then I'd raise<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your wages and move up my desk beside</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where you'd be settin,' restin' there, and I'd</span><br /> +Not care about the weather—all the days<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Would make me glad, and in the evenings then</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I'd wish't was time to start to work again.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i015.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">VIII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +This morning when that homely, long-legged clerk<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Come in he had a rose he got somewhere;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He went and kind of leaned against her chair,</span><br /> +Instead of goin' on about his work,<br /> +And stood around and talked to her awhile,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Because the boss was out,—and both took care</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To watch the door; and when he left her there</span><br /> +He dropped the flower with a sickish smile.<br /> +<br /> +I snuck it from the glass of water she<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Had stuck it in, and tore it up and put</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It on the floor and smashed it with my foot,</span><br /> +When neither him nor her was watchin' me—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I'd like to rub the stem acrost his nose,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I wish they'd never be another rose.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">IX.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +Yesterday I watched you when you set<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">There with your little lunch-box in your lap;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I seen you nibble at a ginger snap,</span><br /> +And wished that where your lips had made it wet<br /> +I'd have a chance to take a bite and let<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My mouth be right where yours was before;</span><br /> +And after you had got your apple e't,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And wasn't lookin', I picked up the core.</span><br /> +<br /> +I pressed my mouth against it then, and so<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It seemed almost the same as kissin' you,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your teeth had touched it, and your red lips, too,</span><br /> +And it was good and tasted sweet, and, oh,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I wished you'd bring an apple every day</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I could have the cores you'd throw away.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">X.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +I wish, when you was through your work some night<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And goin' home alone, and had your pay</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Stuck in your stockin'—what you drew that day—</span><br /> +A robber'd come along with all his might<br /> +And you'd be nearly scared to death, and right<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">There in the street you'd almost faint and say:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"Good robber, please don't hurt me—go away!"</span><br /> +And as he grabbed you then I'd come in sight.<br /> +<br /> +I wish I'd be as strong as two or three<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Big giants then, and when I handed one</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Out to him he'd be through, all in, and done,</span><br /> +And then you'd look and see that it was me,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And, thinkin' of the great escape you had,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">You'd snuggle in my arms and just be glad.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i019.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XI.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +Her brother come this morning with a note<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">What said that she was home and sick in bed;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She's got an awful bad cold in her head—</span><br /> +They think it might run into the sore throat,<br /> +And oh, what if she'd not come back again,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And they would get some other girl instead</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of her to typewrite here, and she'd be dead?</span><br /> +I wouldn't care no more for nothin' then.<br /> +<br /> +I wish I was the doctor that they'd get,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And when I'd take her pulse I'd hold her hand</span><br /> +And say "Poor little girl!" to her, and set<br /> +Beside the bed awhile and kind of let<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My arm go 'round her, slow and careful, and</span><br /> +Say, "Now put out your tongue a little, pet."</td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +She's back to work again; I'm awful glad;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When she was sick it seemed to me as though</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The clocks all got to goin' kind of slow,</span><br /> +And every key she pounds looked kind of sad.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It's tough to have to hear her coughin' so—</span><br /> +I wish that I could take her cold and she<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Would know I took it, and not have to blow</span><br /> +Her nose no more, and be as well as me.<br /> +<br /> +She takes some kind of cough stuff in a spoon,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I seen her lickin' it this morning when</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She took a dose and put it down again,</span><br /> +And when the rest went out awhile at noon<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I got her spoon and licked it, and it seemed</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As though it all was something nice I dreamed.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XIII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +Last night I dreamed about her in my sleep;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I thought that her and me had went away</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Out on some hill where birds sung 'round all day,</span><br /> +And I had got a job of herdin' sheep.<br /> +I thought that she had went along to keep<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Me comp'ny, and we'd set around for hours</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Just lovin', and I'd go and gather flowers</span><br /> +And pile them at her feet, all in a heap.<br /> +<br /> +It seemed to me like heaven, bein' there<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With only her besides the sheep and birds,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And us not sayin' anything but words</span><br /> +About the way we loved. I wouldn't care<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To ever wake again if I could still</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dream we was there forever on the hill.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i023.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XIV.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +This morning when we come to work I got<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Jammed in the elevator back of you, and there</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">They made you stick your elbow in me where</span><br /> +The mince pie lands; the lunch that I had brought<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was all smashed flat, but still I didn't care;</span><br /> +You leaned against me, for you couldn't stand<br /> +Because the ones in front were crowdin', and<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My nose was pressed deep into your back hair.</span><br /> +<br /> +I wish we'd had to go ten times as high,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or else that we'd be shootin' upward yet,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And never stop no more until we'd get</span><br /> +Away above the clouds and in the sky,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And you'd lean back forevermore and let</span><br /> +Your hairpins always jab me in the eye.</td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XV.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +When her and me were here alone, at noon,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And she had bit a pickle square in two,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I set and watched and listened to her chew,</span><br /> +And thought how sweet she was, and pretty soon<br /> +She happened to look down at me and say:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">"You seem so sad, poor boy; what's wrong with you?"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And then I got to shiverin' all through</span><br /> +And wished that I was forty miles away.<br /> +<br /> +I tried to think of some excuse to make,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But something seemed all whirly in my head,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And so the first blame thing I knew I said:</span><br /> +"It's nothin' only just the stummick ache."<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sometimes I almost wisht that I was dead</span><br /> +For settin' there and makin' such a break.</td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XVI.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +Last night I heard Jones astin' you to go<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To see the opery next Thursday night,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And you said yes—and he'll be settin' right</span><br /> +Beside you there all through the whole blamed show,<br /> +And you'll be touchin' him with your elbow,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And mebby he'll say things that tickle you</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And buy a box of chock'luts for you, too,</span><br /> +And I'll not be around nor never know.<br /> +<br /> +I wish I'd be the hero on the stage,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And you was the fair maiden that got stoled,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And he would be the villain that would hold</span><br /> +You frettin' like a song-bird in its cage—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And then I'd come along and smash him one,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And you'd say: "Take me, dear, for what you done."</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i027.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XVII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +When I was dustin' off her desk one day,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And she was standin' there, I took the pad</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She writes on when she gets dictates and had</span><br /> +A notion to tear off a leaf and lay<br /> +It up against my heart at night, when they<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was something made her come to where I stood</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And say, "Poor boy," as softly as she could—</span><br /> +It almost seemed to take my breath away.<br /> +<br /> +That night I couldn't sleep at all becuz<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The thoughts about them words that she had said</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Kep' all the time a-goin' through my head</span><br /> +With thoughts about how beautiful she wuz,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And then I knowed she loved me, too, or she</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Would not of cared how hard I worked, you see.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XVIII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +I'd like to have a lock of her brown hair,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For that would be a part of her, you know;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And if she'd tie it with a little bow</span><br /> +Of ribbon, then I'd fasten it somewhere<br /> +Clear down inside, next to my heart, to wear,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And fix it over every week or so,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When I changed undershirts, or maw she'd go</span><br /> +And raise a fuss because she found it there.<br /> +<br /> +One day when bizness wasn't on the boom<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She trimmed her finger-nails, and one piece flew</span><br /> +To where I was, almost acrost the room;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I watched the spot where it went tumblin' to,</span><br /> +And now a piece of her is mine; it come<br /> +Right from the end of her dear little thumb.</td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XIX.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +I wish, some day, when she's typewritin' and<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I've took a note out for the boss somewhere,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">They'd be some outlaws sneak in here and scare</span><br /> +That long-legged clerk to death and then the band<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Would steal her, and nobody else would dare</span><br /> +To try to save her, and they'd run away<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To where they had their cave, and keep her there,</span><br /> +And ast more for her than her folks could pay.<br /> +<br /> +Then I would get a gun and bowie-knife<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And take the name of Buckskin Bob or Joe,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And track them to their den, and then I'd go</span><br /> +A-galley whoopin' in, and save her life,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And she would say: "My hero's came at last!"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And we'd stand there and hold each other fast.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i031.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XX.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +Last night, when she'd got on her coat and hat<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And felt her dress behind and then her hair,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To see if everything was all right there,</span><br /> +She stopped and said: "Well, now just look at that!"<br /> +And then put out one foot a little bit,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And says: "Ain't that provokin'? I declare,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The string's untied!" She put it on a chair,</span><br /> +A-motionin' for me to fasten it.<br /> +<br /> +So then that long-legged clerk he pushed me back<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And grabbed the shoe-strings that were hangin' down—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I wish I was the strongest man in town—</span><br /> +Oh, wouldn't I of let him have a whack!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I'd of kicked him so blamed hard I'll bet</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He'd wonder what he might come down on yet.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XXI.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +My darling, often when you set and think<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of things that seem to kind of bother you,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">You put your pencil in your mouth and chew</span><br /> +Around the wood, and let your sweet teeth sink<br /> +Down in it till it's all marked up and split,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And yesterday I seen you when you threw</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A stub away that you'd bit up; it flew</span><br /> +Behind the bookcase, where I gobbled it.<br /> +<br /> +I put it in my mouth, the way you'd done,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I could feel the little holes you made—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The places where your teeth sunk in—I laid</span><br /> +My tongue tight up against them, every one,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And shut my eyes, and then you seemed to be</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">There with your lips on mine and kissin' me.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XXII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +When I was tellin' ma, two days ago,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">About our beautiful typewriter girl</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She dropped the dough and give a sudden whirl</span><br /> +And said: "She's twic't as old as you, you know—<br /> +She must be twenty-five or six or so.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Don't think about her any more, my dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And you and me'll be always happy here—</span><br /> +Besides, she's nothing but an old scarecrow."<br /> +<br /> +It made me sad to hear her talk that way;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My darling's just a little girl almost—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I can't see why ma give her such a roast,</span><br /> +And I could hardly eat my lunch next day,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For every time I took a bite of bread</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I almost hated ma for what she said.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i035.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XXIII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +The other day a rusty pen got stuck<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Away deep in her finger, and she held</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her poor, dear little hand up then and yelled</span><br /> +For me to hurry over there and suck<br /> +The poison out, and when I went I struck<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My toe against the old man's cuspidor</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And rolled about eight feet along the floor</span><br /> +Before I knew what happened, blame the luck!<br /> +<br /> +When I set up and looked around, at last<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That long-legged, homely clerk was there, and so</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He had her finger in his mouth, and, oh,</span><br /> +I'll bet you I'd 'a' kicked him if I dast!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I never seen the beat the way things go</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When there's a chance for me to stand a show.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XXIV.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +That homely clerk took her out for a ride<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Last Sunday in a buggy, and they rode</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Around all through the parks; I wisht I'd knowed</span><br /> +About it, and the horse would kind of shied,<br /> +And then got scared and run and kicked, and I'd<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of been a piece ahead and saw him jump</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And leave her hangin' on alone, the chump,</span><br /> +And she'd of been so 'fraid she'd nearly died.<br /> +<br /> +Then I'd of give a spring and caught the bit,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And landed on the horse's back, where all</span><br /> +The people there could see me doin' it,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And when I got her saved the crowd would call</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Three cheers for me, and then she'd come and fall</span><br /> +Against my buzzum, and he'd have a fit.</td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XXV.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +I don't care if she's twic't as old as me,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For I've been figgerin' and figgers shows</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That I'll grow older faster than she grows,</span><br /> +And when I'm twenty-one or so, why, she<br /> +Won't be near twic't as old as me no more,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And then almost the first thing that she knows</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I might ketch up to her some day, I s'pose,</span><br /> +And both of us be gladder than before.<br /> +<br /> +When I get whiskers I can let them grow<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">All up and down my cheeks and on my chin,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And in a little while they might begin</span><br /> +To make me look as old as her, and so<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She'd snuggle up to me and call me "paw."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And then I'd call her "pet" instead of "maw."</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i039.jpg" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XXVI.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +One morning when the boss was out somewhere<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And when the clerk was at the bank and me</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And her was here alone together, she</span><br /> +Let out a screech and jumped up in the air<br /> +And grabbed her skirts and yelled: "A mouse!" And there<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">One come a-runnin' right at her, and, gee!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">They wasn't a blame thing that I could see</span><br /> +To whack it with, except an office chair.<br /> +<br /> +I grabbed one up and made a smash and hit<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her desk and broke a leg clear off somehow,</span><br /> +And when the boss came back and looked at it<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He said that I would have to pay, and now,</span><br /> +When ma finds out I know just what I'll git—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Next pay-day there will be an awful row.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XXVII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +It's over now; the blow has fell at last;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It seems as though the sun can't shine no more,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And nothing looks the way it did before;</span><br /> +The glad thoughts that I used to think are past.<br /> +Her desk's shut up to-day, the lid's locked fast;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The keys where she typewrote are still; her chair</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Looks sad and lonesome standin' empty there—</span><br /> +I'd like to let the tears come if I dast.<br /> +<br /> +This morning when the boss come in he found<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A letter that he'd got from her, and so</span><br /> +He read it over twice and turned around<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And said: "The little fool's got married!" Oh,</span><br /> +It seemed as if I'd sink down through the ground,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And never peep no more—I didn't, though.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="center"><span class="huge">XXVIII.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> +<tr><td> +The chap's a beau we didn't know she had<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He come from out of town somewhere, they say;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I hope he's awful homely, and that they</span><br /> +Will fight like cats and dogs and both be sad.<br /> +But still there's one thing makes me kind of glad:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The long-legged clerk must stay and work away,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And, though he keeps pretendin' to be gay,</span><br /> +It's plain enough to see he's feelin' bad.<br /> +<br /> +I wish when I'm a man and rich and proud,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She'd see me, tall and handsome then, and be</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Blamed sorry that she didn't wait for me,</span><br /> +And that she'd hear the people cheerin' loud<br /> +When I went past, and down there in the crowd<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I'd see her lookin' at me sorrowf'ly.</span></td></tr></table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i043.jpg" alt="" /></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><span class="big"><i>Now in Press</i></span></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="giant">Ballads of the Busy Days</span></p> + +<p class="center"><span class="huge"><span class="smcap">By S. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Love Sonnets of an Office Boy + +Author: Samuel Ellsworth Kiser + +Illustrator: John T. McCutcheon + +Release Date: January 14, 2012 [EBook #38572] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE SONNETS OF AN OFFICE BOY *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, David E. Brown and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + + + LOVE SONNETS OF AN + OFFICE BOY + + + + + [Illustration] + + + + + Love Sonnets of an + Office Boy + + By + Samuel Ellsworth Kiser + + Illustrated by + John T. McCutcheon + + Forbes & Company + Boston and Chicago + 1902 + + _Copyright, 1902_ + BY SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER + + Published by arrangement with + THE CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD + + Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed + by C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A. + + + + + LOVE SONNETS OF AN + OFFICE BOY + + + + + I. + + + Oh, if you only knowed how much I like + To stand here, when the "old man" ain't around, + And watch your soft, white fingers while you pound + Away at them there keys! Each time you strike + It almost seems to me as though you'd found + Some way, while writin' letters, how to play + Sweet music on that thing, because the sound + Is something I could listen to all day. + + You're twenty-five or six and I'm fourteen, + And you don't hardly ever notice me-- + But when you do, you call me Willie! Gee, + I wisht I'd bundles of the old long green + And could be twenty-eight or nine or so, + And something happened to your other beau. + + + + + II. + + + I heard the old man scoldin' yesterday + Because your spellin' didn't suit him quite; + He said you'd better go to school at night, + And you was rattled when he turned away; + You had to tear the letter up and write + It all again, and when nobody seen + I went and dented in his hat for spite: + That's what he got for treatin' you so mean. + + I wish that you typewrote for me and we + Was far off on an island, all alone; + I'd fix a place up under some nice tree, + And every time your fingers struck a key + I'd grab your hands and hold them in my own, + And any way you spelt would do for me. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + III. + + + I wish a fire'd start up here, some day, + And all the rest would run away from you-- + The boss and that long-legged bookkeeper, too, + That you keep smilin' at--and after they + Was all down-stairs you'd holler out and say: + "Won't no one come and save me? Must I choke + And die alone here in the heat and smoke? + Oh, cowards that they was to run away!" + + And then I'd come and grab you up and go + Out through the hall and down the stairs, and when + I got you saved the crowd would cheer, and then + They'd take me to the hospital, and so + You'd come and stay beside me there and cry + And say you'd hate to live if I would die. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + IV. + + + Yesterday I stood behind your chair + When you was kind of bendin' down to write, + And I could see your neck, so soft and white, + And notice where the poker singed your hair, + And then you looked around and seen me there, + And kind of smiled, and I could seem to feel + A sudden empty, sinkish feelin' where + I'm all filled up when I've just e't a meal. + + Dear Frankie, where your soft, sweet finger tips + Hit on the keys I often touch my lips, + And wunst I kissed your little overshoe, + And I have got a hairpin that you wore-- + One day I found it on the office floor-- + I'd throw my job up if they fired you. + + + + + V. + + + She's got a dimple in her chin, and, oh, + How soft and smooth it looks; her eyes are blue; + The red seems always tryin' to peep through + The middle of her cheeks. I'd like to go + And lay my face up next to hers and throw + My arms around her neck, with just us two + Alone together, but not carin' who + Might scold if they should see us actin' so. + + If I would know that some poor girl loved me + As much as I do her, sometimes I'd take + Her in my arms a little while and make + Her happy just for kindness, and to see + The pleased look that acrost her face'd break, + And hear the sighs that showed how glad she'd be. + + + + + VI. + + + When you're typewritin' and that long-legged clerk + Tips back there on his chair and smiles at you, + And you look up and get to smilin', too, + I'd like to go and give his chair a jerk + And send him flyin' till his head went through + The door that goes out to the hall, and when + They picked him up he'd be all black and blue + And you'd be nearly busted laughin' then. + + But if I done it, maybe you would run + And hold his head and smooth his hair and say + It made you sad that he got dumped that way, + And I'd get h'isted out for what I done-- + I wish that he'd get fired and you'd stay + And suddenly I'd be a man some day. + + +[Illustration] + + + + + VII. + + + If I was grown to be a man, and you + And all the others that are workin' here + Was always under me, and I could clear + The place to-morrow if I wanted to, + I'd buy an easy chair all nice and new + And get a bird to sing above your head, + And let you set and rest all day, instead + Of hammerin' them keys the way you do. + + I'd bounce that long-legged clerk and then I'd raise + Your wages and move up my desk beside + Where you'd be settin,' restin' there, and I'd + Not care about the weather--all the days + Would make me glad, and in the evenings then + I'd wish't was time to start to work again. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + VIII. + + + This morning when that homely, long-legged clerk + Come in he had a rose he got somewhere; + He went and kind of leaned against her chair, + Instead of goin' on about his work, + And stood around and talked to her awhile, + Because the boss was out,--and both took care + To watch the door; and when he left her there + He dropped the flower with a sickish smile. + + I snuck it from the glass of water she + Had stuck it in, and tore it up and put + It on the floor and smashed it with my foot, + When neither him nor her was watchin' me-- + I'd like to rub the stem acrost his nose, + And I wish they'd never be another rose. + + + + + IX. + + + Yesterday I watched you when you set + There with your little lunch-box in your lap; + I seen you nibble at a ginger snap, + And wished that where your lips had made it wet + I'd have a chance to take a bite and let + My mouth be right where yours was before; + And after you had got your apple e't, + And wasn't lookin', I picked up the core. + + I pressed my mouth against it then, and so + It seemed almost the same as kissin' you, + Your teeth had touched it, and your red lips, too, + And it was good and tasted sweet, and, oh, + I wished you'd bring an apple every day + And I could have the cores you'd throw away. + + + + + X. + + + I wish, when you was through your work some night + And goin' home alone, and had your pay + Stuck in your stockin'--what you drew that day-- + A robber'd come along with all his might + And you'd be nearly scared to death, and right + There in the street you'd almost faint and say: + "Good robber, please don't hurt me--go away!" + And as he grabbed you then I'd come in sight. + + I wish I'd be as strong as two or three + Big giants then, and when I handed one + Out to him he'd be through, all in, and done, + And then you'd look and see that it was me, + And, thinkin' of the great escape you had, + You'd snuggle in my arms and just be glad. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + XI. + + + Her brother come this morning with a note + What said that she was home and sick in bed; + She's got an awful bad cold in her head-- + They think it might run into the sore throat, + And oh, what if she'd not come back again, + And they would get some other girl instead + Of her to typewrite here, and she'd be dead? + I wouldn't care no more for nothin' then. + + I wish I was the doctor that they'd get, + And when I'd take her pulse I'd hold her hand + And say "Poor little girl!" to her, and set + Beside the bed awhile and kind of let + My arm go 'round her, slow and careful, and + Say, "Now put out your tongue a little, pet." + + + + + XII. + + + She's back to work again; I'm awful glad; + When she was sick it seemed to me as though + The clocks all got to goin' kind of slow, + And every key she pounds looked kind of sad. + It's tough to have to hear her coughin' so-- + I wish that I could take her cold and she + Would know I took it, and not have to blow + Her nose no more, and be as well as me. + + She takes some kind of cough stuff in a spoon, + I seen her lickin' it this morning when + She took a dose and put it down again, + And when the rest went out awhile at noon + I got her spoon and licked it, and it seemed + As though it all was something nice I dreamed. + + + + + XIII. + + + Last night I dreamed about her in my sleep; + I thought that her and me had went away + Out on some hill where birds sung 'round all day, + And I had got a job of herdin' sheep. + I thought that she had went along to keep + Me comp'ny, and we'd set around for hours + Just lovin', and I'd go and gather flowers + And pile them at her feet, all in a heap. + + It seemed to me like heaven, bein' there + With only her besides the sheep and birds, + And us not sayin' anything but words + About the way we loved. I wouldn't care + To ever wake again if I could still + Dream we was there forever on the hill. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + XIV. + + + This morning when we come to work I got + Jammed in the elevator back of you, and there + They made you stick your elbow in me where + The mince pie lands; the lunch that I had brought + Was all smashed flat, but still I didn't care; + You leaned against me, for you couldn't stand + Because the ones in front were crowdin', and + My nose was pressed deep into your back hair. + + I wish we'd had to go ten times as high, + Or else that we'd be shootin' upward yet, + And never stop no more until we'd get + Away above the clouds and in the sky, + And you'd lean back forevermore and let + Your hairpins always jab me in the eye. + + + + + XV. + + + When her and me were here alone, at noon, + And she had bit a pickle square in two, + I set and watched and listened to her chew, + And thought how sweet she was, and pretty soon + She happened to look down at me and say: + "You seem so sad, poor boy; what's wrong with you?" + And then I got to shiverin' all through + And wished that I was forty miles away. + + I tried to think of some excuse to make, + But something seemed all whirly in my head, + And so the first blame thing I knew I said: + "It's nothin' only just the stummick ache." + Sometimes I almost wisht that I was dead + For settin' there and makin' such a break. + + + + + XVI. + + + Last night I heard Jones astin' you to go + To see the opery next Thursday night, + And you said yes--and he'll be settin' right + Beside you there all through the whole blamed show, + And you'll be touchin' him with your elbow, + And mebby he'll say things that tickle you + And buy a box of chock'luts for you, too, + And I'll not be around nor never know. + + I wish I'd be the hero on the stage, + And you was the fair maiden that got stoled, + And he would be the villain that would hold + You frettin' like a song-bird in its cage-- + And then I'd come along and smash him one, + And you'd say: "Take me, dear, for what you done." + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + XVII. + + + When I was dustin' off her desk one day, + And she was standin' there, I took the pad + She writes on when she gets dictates and had + A notion to tear off a leaf and lay + It up against my heart at night, when they + Was something made her come to where I stood + And say, "Poor boy," as softly as she could-- + It almost seemed to take my breath away. + + That night I couldn't sleep at all becuz + The thoughts about them words that she had said + Kep' all the time a-goin' through my head + With thoughts about how beautiful she wuz, + And then I knowed she loved me, too, or she + Would not of cared how hard I worked, you see. + + + + + XVIII. + + + I'd like to have a lock of her brown hair, + For that would be a part of her, you know; + And if she'd tie it with a little bow + Of ribbon, then I'd fasten it somewhere + Clear down inside, next to my heart, to wear, + And fix it over every week or so, + When I changed undershirts, or maw she'd go + And raise a fuss because she found it there. + + One day when bizness wasn't on the boom + She trimmed her finger-nails, and one piece flew + To where I was, almost acrost the room; + I watched the spot where it went tumblin' to, + And now a piece of her is mine; it come + Right from the end of her dear little thumb. + + + + + XIX. + + + I wish, some day, when she's typewritin' and + I've took a note out for the boss somewhere, + They'd be some outlaws sneak in here and scare + That long-legged clerk to death and then the band + Would steal her, and nobody else would dare + To try to save her, and they'd run away + To where they had their cave, and keep her there, + And ast more for her than her folks could pay. + + Then I would get a gun and bowie-knife + And take the name of Buckskin Bob or Joe, + And track them to their den, and then I'd go + A-galley whoopin' in, and save her life, + And she would say: "My hero's came at last!" + And we'd stand there and hold each other fast. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + XX. + + + Last night, when she'd got on her coat and hat + And felt her dress behind and then her hair, + To see if everything was all right there, + She stopped and said: "Well, now just look at that!" + And then put out one foot a little bit, + And says: "Ain't that provokin'? I declare, + The string's untied!" She put it on a chair, + A-motionin' for me to fasten it. + + So then that long-legged clerk he pushed me back + And grabbed the shoe-strings that were hangin' down-- + I wish I was the strongest man in town-- + Oh, wouldn't I of let him have a whack! + And I'd of kicked him so blamed hard I'll bet + He'd wonder what he might come down on yet. + + + + + XXI. + + + My darling, often when you set and think + Of things that seem to kind of bother you, + You put your pencil in your mouth and chew + Around the wood, and let your sweet teeth sink + Down in it till it's all marked up and split, + And yesterday I seen you when you threw + A stub away that you'd bit up; it flew + Behind the bookcase, where I gobbled it. + + I put it in my mouth, the way you'd done, + And I could feel the little holes you made-- + The places where your teeth sunk in--I laid + My tongue tight up against them, every one, + And shut my eyes, and then you seemed to be + There with your lips on mine and kissin' me. + + + + + XXII. + + + When I was tellin' ma, two days ago, + About our beautiful typewriter girl + She dropped the dough and give a sudden whirl + And said: "She's twic't as old as you, you know-- + She must be twenty-five or six or so. + Don't think about her any more, my dear, + And you and me'll be always happy here-- + Besides, she's nothing but an old scarecrow." + + It made me sad to hear her talk that way; + My darling's just a little girl almost-- + I can't see why ma give her such a roast, + And I could hardly eat my lunch next day, + For every time I took a bite of bread + I almost hated ma for what she said. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + XXIII. + + + The other day a rusty pen got stuck + Away deep in her finger, and she held + Her poor, dear little hand up then and yelled + For me to hurry over there and suck + The poison out, and when I went I struck + My toe against the old man's cuspidor + And rolled about eight feet along the floor + Before I knew what happened, blame the luck! + + When I set up and looked around, at last + That long-legged, homely clerk was there, and so + He had her finger in his mouth, and, oh, + I'll bet you I'd 'a' kicked him if I dast! + I never seen the beat the way things go + When there's a chance for me to stand a show. + + + + + XXIV. + + + That homely clerk took her out for a ride + Last Sunday in a buggy, and they rode + Around all through the parks; I wisht I'd knowed + About it, and the horse would kind of shied, + And then got scared and run and kicked, and I'd + Of been a piece ahead and saw him jump + And leave her hangin' on alone, the chump, + And she'd of been so 'fraid she'd nearly died. + + Then I'd of give a spring and caught the bit, + And landed on the horse's back, where all + The people there could see me doin' it, + And when I got her saved the crowd would call + Three cheers for me, and then she'd come and fall + Against my buzzum, and he'd have a fit. + + + + + XXV. + + + I don't care if she's twic't as old as me, + For I've been figgerin' and figgers shows + That I'll grow older faster than she grows, + And when I'm twenty-one or so, why, she + Won't be near twic't as old as me no more, + And then almost the first thing that she knows + I might ketch up to her some day, I s'pose, + And both of us be gladder than before. + + When I get whiskers I can let them grow + All up and down my cheeks and on my chin, + And in a little while they might begin + To make me look as old as her, and so + She'd snuggle up to me and call me "paw." + And then I'd call her "pet" instead of "maw." + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + XXVI. + + + One morning when the boss was out somewhere + And when the clerk was at the bank and me + And her was here alone together, she + Let out a screech and jumped up in the air + And grabbed her skirts and yelled: "A mouse!" And there + One come a-runnin' right at her, and, gee! + They wasn't a blame thing that I could see + To whack it with, except an office chair. + + I grabbed one up and made a smash and hit + Her desk and broke a leg clear off somehow, + And when the boss came back and looked at it + He said that I would have to pay, and now, + When ma finds out I know just what I'll git-- + Next pay-day there will be an awful row. + + + + + XXVII. + + + It's over now; the blow has fell at last; + It seems as though the sun can't shine no more, + And nothing looks the way it did before; + The glad thoughts that I used to think are past. + Her desk's shut up to-day, the lid's locked fast; + The keys where she typewrote are still; her chair + Looks sad and lonesome standin' empty there-- + I'd like to let the tears come if I dast. + + This morning when the boss come in he found + A letter that he'd got from her, and so + He read it over twice and turned around + And said: "The little fool's got married!" Oh, + It seemed as if I'd sink down through the ground, + And never peep no more--I didn't, though. + + + + + XXVIII. + + + The chap's a beau we didn't know she had + He come from out of town somewhere, they say; + I hope he's awful homely, and that they + Will fight like cats and dogs and both be sad. + But still there's one thing makes me kind of glad: + The long-legged clerk must stay and work away, + And, though he keeps pretendin' to be gay, + It's plain enough to see he's feelin' bad. + + I wish when I'm a man and rich and proud, + She'd see me, tall and handsome then, and be + Blamed sorry that she didn't wait for me, + And that she'd hear the people cheerin' loud + When I went past, and down there in the crowd + I'd see her lookin' at me sorrowf'ly. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + _Now in Press_ + + Ballads of the Busy Days + + BY S. E. 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