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Edgar Guest - Aunty
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I`m sorry for a feller if he hasn`t any aunt,
To let him eat and do the things his mother says he can`t.
An aunt to come a visitin` or one to go and see
Is just about the finest kind of lady there could be.
Of course she`s not your mother, an` she hasn`t got her ways,
But a part that`s most important in a feller`s life she plays.

She is kind an` she is gentle, an` sometimes she`s full of fun,
An` she`s very sympathetic when some dreadful thing you`ve done.
An` she likes to buy you candy, an` she`s always gettin` toys
That you wish your Pa would get you, for she hasn`t any boys.
But sometimes she`s over-loving, an` your cheeks turn red with shame
When she smothers you with kisses, but you like her just the same.

One time my father took me to my aunty`s, an` he said:
"You will stay here till I get you, an` be sure you go to bed
When your aunty says it`s time to, an` be good an` mind her, too,
An` when you come home we`ll try to have a big surprise for you."
I did as I was told to, an` when Pa came back for me
He said there was a baby at the house for me to see.

I`ve been visitin` at aunty`s for a week or two, an` Pa
Has written that he`s comin` soon to take me home to Ma.
He says they`re gettin` lonely, an` I`m kind o` lonely, too,
Coz an aunt is not exactly what your mother is to you.
I am hungry now to see her, but I`m wondering to-day
If Pa`s bought another baby in the time I`ve been away.
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