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Edgar Guest - The Right Family
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With time our notions allus change,
An` years make old idees seem strange--
Take Mary there--time was when she
Thought one child made a family,
An` when our eldest, Jim, was born
She used to say, both night an` morn`:
"One little one to love an` keep,
To guard awake, an` watch asleep;
To bring up right an` lead him through
Life`s path is all we ought to do."

Two years from then our Jennie came,
But Mary didn`t talk the same;
"Now that`s just right," she said to me,
"We`ve got the proper family--
A boy an` girl, God sure is good;
It seems as though He understood
That I`ve been hopin` every way
To have a little girl some day;
Sometimes I`ve prayed the whole night through--
One ain`t enough; we needed two."

Then as the months went rollin` on,
One day the stork brought little John,
An` Mary smiled an` said to me;
"The proper family is three;
Two boys, a girl to romp an` play--
Jus` work enough to fill the day.
I never had enough to do,
The months that we had only two;
Three`s jus` right, pa, we don`t want more."
Still time went on an` we had four.

An` that was years ago, I vow,
An` we have six fine children now;
An` Mary`s plumb forgot the day
She used to sit an` sweetly say
That one child was enough for her
To love an` give the proper care;
One, two or three or four or five--
Why, goodness gracious, sakes alive,
If God should send her ten to-night,
She`d vow her fam`ly was jus` right!
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