Lyttel Boy

( The ). A troublesome baby that always clung to his busy mother although she bade him “runne and play.” “He wolde not goe, but tarrying soe Ben allwais in the way”— until he was taken out of the way, to heaven.       *       *       *       *       * “And then a moder felt her heart How that it ben to-torne,— She ki ed each day till she ben gray, The shoon he use to worn: No bairn let hold untill her gown, Nor played upon the floore,— Goddes’ was the joy; a lyttel boy Ben in the way no more!” Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse (1890).