LITTLE WILLIES

I

                           Little Willie played with spiders
                           Gluing them to paper gliders
                          Then threw them toward the crackling fire,
                          A game of which he’d never tire.

II

                                   Little Willie thought it fine
                                   To filch a glass of Poppa’s wine,
                                   But when he got a little drunk,
                                   He fell into the pool and sunk.

   

III

                              Little Willie, out of spite,
                              Pulled his sister’s pigtails tight,
                              But she, like him, as full of trouble,
                              Then tossed him on a pile of rubble.

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