``My mamma's sorry, now, she is;
```I don' know what I'se done;
``S'pec' she feels sorry jess bekause
```I slapped old nurse like fun.=
``Old nurse she digs and shates me too;
```I wish I went to stool;
``Teacher won't set me down so hard,
```An' call me "little fool."=
``She pinches awful! dess I know,
```My arms is black an' blue;
``She says she "hopes to do to Heaven
```I hope I shan't do too.=
``I don't like nurses--do you now?
```Dey is dest as mean as dirls;
``When I dits big I'll let'em know
```Dey musn't pull my turls.=
``My mamma she's real dood, she is;
```On most the days I play
``With her jess like she was a boy,
```She hugs me every day.=
``My mamma she don't stold me none,
```I dess she don't know how;
``But nurse, oh, my! she spoke so loud;
```Hush, she is toming now!=
``No, dat ain't nurse, an' ain't I glad?
```I jess know what I'll do,
``I'll do tell mamma I was bad,
```An' I feel sorry too.=
``I dess Dod made my mamma sure,
```She is so sweet and nice;
``But who made nurse, s'pose you know?
```I'll ask my Drandma Rice.=
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