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Eugene Field - Seein` things
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I ain`t afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice,
An` things `at girls are skeered uv I think are awful nice!
I`m pretty brave, I guess; an` yet I hate to go to bed,
For, when I`m tucked up warm an` snug an` when my prayers are said,
Mother tells me "Happy dreams!" and takes away the light,
An` leaves me lyin` all alone an` seein` things at night!

Sometimes they`re in the corner, sometimes they`re by the door,
Sometimes they`re all a-standin` in the middle uv the floor;
Sometimes they are a-sittin` down, sometimes they`re walkin` round
So softly an` so creepylike they never make a sound!
Sometimes they are as black as ink, an` other times they`re white -
But the color ain`t no difference when you see things at night!

Once, when I licked a feller `at had just moved on our street,
An` father sent me up to bed without a bite to eat,
I woke up in the dark an` saw things standin` in a row,
A-lookin` at me cross-eyed an` p`intin` at me - so!
Oh, my! I wuz so skeered that time I never slep` a mite -
It`s almost alluz when I`m bad I see things at night!

Lucky thing I ain`t a girl, or I`d be skeered to death!
Bein` I`m a boy, I duck my head an` hold my breath;
An` I am, oh! so sorry I`m a naughty boy, an` then
I promise to be better an` I say my prayers again!
Gran`ma tells me that`s the only way to make it right
When a feller has been wicked an` sees things at night!
An` so, when other naughty boys would coax me into sin,
I try to skwush the Tempter`s voice `at urges me within;
An` when they`s pie for supper, or cakes `at `s big an` nice,
I want to - but I do not pass my plate f`r them things twice!
No, ruther let Starvation wipe me slowly out o` sight
Than I should keep a-livin` on an` seein` things at night!
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