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Chapter 20: Papa’s Dinner.

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About This Book

A collection of short, illustrated verses that portray infants and toddlers in familiar domestic scenes—play, naps, mealtimes, mischief, outings, and simple fantasies. Each poem uses rhythmic, child-friendly language to celebrate sensory details, family relationships, and small adventures, often observing twins, siblings, neighborhood babies, and everyday mishaps like jam on the face or rainy-day confinement. The volume reads like a series of affectionate snapshots aimed at entertaining and soothing young readers and caregivers.

Papa’s Dinner.

Through the grassy meadows,

Betty, Kate, and Ray,

Carry papa’s dinner,

While he rakes the hay.

Round about the flowers,

Hums a busy bee,

Busy birds are feeding

Hungry birdies wee.

Busy in the hay-field,

Papa rakes the hay,

Ready for his dinner,

It is high noon-day.

“Hear the roosters crowing,

Twelve o’clock,” says Ray,

“Yes, indeed,” says Katie,

“That is what they say.”

“Papa will be waiting,

Hungry too, I know,

Hurry little brother,

We must not walk slow.”

So they go to papa,

Through the sweet new hay.

When he eats his dinner,

Home again go they.