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Just Try To Be The Fellow That Your Mother Thinks You Are
- Author: Adkin, Will S.
- Editor: B-6591
- Newspaper: The Umpire volume 2
- Page Number:
- Date: 6 18 1913
- Tags:
- poetry
- mothers
Just Try To Be The Fellow That Your Mother Thinks You AreWhilst walking down a crowded city streetthe other day,I heard a little urchin to a comrade turn andsay-"Say, Chimmey, lemme tell youse, I'd behappy as a clamIf I only was the fellow dat me mudder tinksI am,She tinks I am a wonder, an' she knows herlittle ladCould never mix wit' nutting dat was uglymean or bad.Oh lots o' times I set and tink, how nice'twould be, gee whiz!If a feller was de feller that his mudder tinkshe is."My friends, be yours a life of toil, or undiluted joy,You still can learn a lesson from this smallunlettered boy.Don't try to be an earthly saint with eyes fixed on the stars,Just try to be the fellow that your motherthinks yon are. -Will S. Adkin.
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