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ILLUSTRATIONS
by Reginald Birch

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Song of Summer Days Frontispiece
The Adams’s Boys facing page 10
Billy Peeble’s Christmas 14
A Modern Miracle 32
A Little Love Story 42
The Gingercake Man 52
The Waders 84
A Prayer for Jimmy Banks 88
Once Upon A Time 94
The Neighbor’s Boys 104
Asleep at the Circus 136
In Swimming 162
The Parted Ways 176
Lullaby 180
Verses of a Little Child 208
Lover’s Lane 228

BOYS AND GIRLS

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AWAY

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“I WON’T be long,” the Little Boy said,

As he clattered him down the stair,

And found him a hat for his curly head

And called to a dog somewhere.

Then off like a flash down the shady lane

With a whistle and cry and song;

And back to us ever it came again:

“I won’t be gone very long.”

“I won’t be long,” the Little Boy said,

As we saw him among the trees,

His eyes all bright and his cheeks all red,

A friend of the birds and bees;

Then through the hedges and out of the gate,

For naught in the world goes wrong

With a boy of six or seven or eight—

“I won’t be gone very long.”

“I won’t be long,” the Little Boy said,

“I’m just going out to play.”

And the curly dog barked and the two of them sped

Over the clover away.

He waved us a kiss with a little brown hand

And cries rose from here and there,

For oh, but a boy does understand

A dog and the open air!

“I won’t be long,” the Little Boy said,

“Don’t wait any supper—you see,

I’ll just have a bowl of milk and bread

And my dog he will eat with me.”

Then he swung his hat on its tangled string

Till the curly dog wagged his tail

And romped and played like a boy in spring

And barked him a comrade’s hail.

“I won’t be long,” the Little Boy said—

Oh, Mother of him, don’t cry!

The leaves come green again, yellow and red,

And the years and the years go by.

But sometime he’ll come, as we’ve seen him do,

With the bark of a dog and a song,

For it must be true—oh, it must be true

That he’ll not be gone very long!

THE RECIPROCITY OF SMILES

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