When I was - oh, maybe 6 or so years old - I found an old childrens book of stories, large format soft-cover, the paper like coloring book paper and the illustrations from the 1940s. In fact, the book was from the 1940s. I scared myself most to death reading and re-reading the Little Orphan[t] Annie poem, for some reason printed in a dialect in this book. I never forgot it and looked for it years later - still creepy in that Victorian style of something terrible will happen to you if you arent good. So here are the verses that made my 6-year-old self run for cover - I still have the book by the way! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The Little Orphan Annie by James Whitcomb Riley Little Orphan Annies come to my house to stay. To wash the cups and saucers up and brush the crumbs away. To shoo the chickens from the porch and dust the hearth and sweep, and make the fire and bake the bread to earn her board and keep. While all us other children, when the supper things is done, we sit around the kitchen fire and has the mostest fun, a listening to the witch tales that Annie tells about and the goblins will get ya if ya dont watch out! Once there was a little boy who wouldnt say his prayers, and when he went to bed at night away up stairs, his mammy heard him holler and his daddy heard him bawl, and when they turned the covers down, he wasnt there at all! They searched him in the attic room and cubby hole and press and even up the chimney flu and every wheres, I guess, but all they ever found of him was just his pants and round-abouts and the goblins will get ya if ya dont watch out!! Once there was a little girl who always laughed and grinned and made fun of everyone, of all her blood and kin, and once when there was company and old folks was there, she mocked them and she shocked them and said, she didnt care. And just as she turned on her heels and to go and run and hide, there was two great big black things a standing by her side. They snatched her through the ceiling fore she knew what shes about, and the goblins will get ya if ya dont watch out!!
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:48:53 +0000
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