``"Fink I don't know what dat fing is,
```All wrapped up in gwanma's lap?
``I does; nurse told me so to-day,
```It's my sisser tatin' a nap.
``"She's only a piece of a day old now,
```But she _looks_ like any fing;
``Wight out of her great eyes all boo,
```An', ganpa, she can sing:=
``"There, don't you hear her, naughty dirl?
``She skuled dat way--because
``I feeled her foots, to see if 'em gowed
```Like mine or pussy's claws.=
``"Sissers ain't nice to sing dat way,
```And gwanma holds her snug;
``I wouldn't cuy if her holded me,
```All up in dat pwetty rug.=
``"Oh, yes, me knows, she's a sisser, she is,
```An' I'm jess a boy, dat's all;
``Sissers ain't dood for much, I fink,
```Why, her couldn't hold my ball.=
``"Dess if I was made a piece of a day,
```I would know some more dan dat;
``No, ganpa, sissers ain't dood for much,
```I'll do and find my cat."=
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