{"id":7836,"date":"2021-12-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2021-12-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T06:00:00","slug":"the-kids-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-kids-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kid’s Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Topeka State Journal, December 26, 1913<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s somethin\u2019 doin\u2019 in our flat,
    \u2018Taint like it used to be;
There seems to be some secret that
    They\u2019re keepin\u2019 \u2018way from me.
They\u2019re whisperin\u2019 from morn to night,
    It makes me gol ding sick;
For every time I come in sight
    They all shet up right quick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems like I can\u2019t go about
    The rooms or anywhere,
Unless somebody has to shout,
    \u201cYou mustn\u2019t go in there.\u201d
Pa\u2019s room is locked up like a jail,
    It never was before;
And ma, she hollers and turns pale
    If I go near the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when they think that I\u2019m in bed
    These fine December nights,
I\u2019m underneath the lounge instead,
    A-seein\u2019 all the sights
That in the sittin\u2019 room are shown
    When dad unwraps the stuff.
I let \u2018em think they are alone,
    So you can hang their bluff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I\u2019ve snuck back and closed my eyes
    In bed, I can\u2019t help think
Of pa and ma\u2019s great big surprise
    And I can\u2019t sleep a wink.
They\u2019re handing me an awful game,
    And I\u2019m dead wise this year,
But I\u2019m right tickled just the same
    That Christmas morn is near.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Topeka State Journal, December 26, 1913. There\u2019s somethin\u2019 doin\u2019 in our flat,    \u2018Taint like it used to be;There seems to be some secret that    They\u2019re keepin\u2019 \u2018way from me.They\u2019re whisperin\u2019 from morn to night,    It makes me gol ding sick;For every time I come in sight    They all shet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}