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THE BABES IN THE WOOD
MAY BELLS SERIES
MCLOUGHLIN BRO'S N. Y.
THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD.
A gentleman of good account In Norfolk dwelt of late, Who did in honor far surmount Most men of his estate.
Sore sick he was, and like to die, No help his life could save; His wife by him as sick did lie, And both possessed one grave.
No love between these two was lost, Each was to other kind; In love they lived, in love they died, And left two babes behind.
The one, a fine and pretty boy, Not passing three years old; The other, a girl more young than he, And framed in beauty's mould.
The father left his little son, As plainly doth appear, When he to perfect age should come, Three hundred pounds a year.
And to his little daughter Jane, Five hundred pounds in gold, To be paid down on her marriage-day, Which might not be controlled:
But if the children chanced to die, Ere they to age should come, Their uncle should possess their wealth; For so the will did run.
"Now, brother," said the dying man, "Look to my children dear; Be good unto my boy and girl, No friends else have they here:"
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