Us children liked her, though she was so queer,
When she came out to Pleasantville, last year;
She "mustn't walk upon the grass," she said:
We asked her _why_?--and she just shook her head!
Oh, yes, us children liked the little kid,
Although she didn't know one thing _we_ did,
And said the oddest things you ever heard;
She saw a goose, and asked, "_What kind o' bird?_"
Us children liked the little kid, oh, yes!
She wa'n't a bit afraid to tear her dress;
One day, when she went barefoot, just like us,
She got a stone-bruise; but she didn't _fuss_!
Oh, yes! us children liked her, but oh, my!
We had to teach her how to play "high spy";
She came to see us,--called our house "_a flat_"--
I wonder now--what _could_ she mean by that?