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Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

By. Frederick Locker-Lampson

A Terrible Infant

I RECOLLECT a nurse call’d Ann,

Who carried me about the grass,

And one fine day a fine young man

Came up and kiss’d the pretty lass:

She did not make the least objection!

Thinks I, “Aha!

When I can talk I’ll tell Mamma.”

—And that’s my earliest recollection.