Five Minute Stories

Chapter 64: NEW YEAR THOUGHTS.

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A lively collection of short stories and poems for children, offering simple domestic scenes, playful rhymes, brief narratives, and light moral lessons. Pieces range from tender portraits of family life and child play to fanciful nonsense verses, seasonal and holiday sketches, animal vignettes, and concise character studies, often keyed to children's imagination and daily activities. Language is straightforward and rhythmic, with songs and jingles interspersed among short tales; many pieces aim to charm or amuse while gently reinforcing kindness, curiosity, and good manners. Illustrations accompany several items, enhancing the accessible tone and appeal to young readers.

NEW YEAR THOUGHTS.

When the new year’s come,

Then I will be a soldier,

A-beating on a drum.

A-beating on a drum,

And a-tooting on a fife:

And the new year, the new year

Oh, that’s the best in life.

When the new year comes,

I sha’n’t have any joggraphy,

I sha’n’t have any sums.

I sha’n’t have any sums,

Nor any rule of three,

And the new year, the new year

Oh, that’s the time for me.

P.S.—When the new year came,

When the new year came,

I had to go to school

Just exacketly the same!

Exacketly the same!

Do you think ’twas kind of mother?

And the new year, the new year

Is just like any other!