Any Kind o’ Boy

I don’t know whether I was good,

I meant to be, I said I would;

But auntie watched me all the way.

“Now don’t to this, or that!” she’d say

Before I had a chance to be

Jus’ any kind o’ boy, you see!

If she had given me a chance,

I might ‘a led her such a dance,

An’ been as bad as I knew how,

An’ cut up—made an awful row!

An’ then again I might ‘a tried

To make her stretch her eyes as wide,

An’ wonder boys could be so good!

I thought o’ that, an’ thought I would;

But she jus’ watched me all the way,

An’ “Don’t do this, or that!” she’d say.

I wish I’d had a chance to be

Jus’ any kind o’ boy, you see!

            - Jessie And[cut off]