{"id":8228,"date":"2022-05-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2022-05-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:00:00","slug":"pittypat-and-tippytoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/pittypat-and-tippytoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittypat and Tippytoe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Grand Forks Daily Herald, May 23, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Eugene Field.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All day long they come and go\u2014
Pittypat and Tippytoe!
    Footprints up and down the hall,
        Playthings scattered on the floor,
    Finger-marks along the wall,
        Telltale smudges on the door\u2014
By these presents you shall know,
Pittypat and Tippytoe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How they riot at their play!
And a dozen times a day
\u00a0 \u00a0 In they troop, demading bread\u2014
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Only buttered bread will do,
\u00a0 \u00a0 And that butter must be spread
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Inches thick with sugar too!
And I never can say \u201cNo,\u201d
Pittypat and Tippytoe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes there are griefs to soothe,
Sometimes ruffled brows to smooth;
    For (I much regret to say)
        Tippytoe and Pittypat
    Sometimes interrupt their play
        With an internecine spat;
Fie, for shame! to quarrel so\u2014
Pittypat and Tippytoe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh the thousand worrying things,
Every day recurrent brings!
\u00a0 \u00a0 Hands to scrub and hair to brush,
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Search for playthings gone amiss,
\u00a0 \u00a0 Many a wee complaint to hush,
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Many a little bump to kiss;
Life seems one vain, fleeting show
To Pittypat and Tippytoe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when day is at an end,
There are little duds to mend;
    Little frocks are strangely torn,
        Little shoes great holes reveal
    Little hose, but one day worn,
        Rudely yawn at toe and heel!
Who but you could work such woe,
Pittypat and Tippytoe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when comes this thought to me:
\u201cSome there are that childless be,\u201d
    Stealing to their little beds,
        With a love I cannot speak,
    Tenderly I stroke their heads \u2014
        Fondly kiss each velvet cheek.
God help those who do not know
A Pittypat or Tippytoe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the floor and down the hall,
Rudely smutched upon the wall,
    There are proofs in every kind
        Of the havoc they have wrought,
    And upon my heart you\u2019d find
        Just such trade-marks, if you sought;
Oh, how glad I am \u2019tis so,
Pittypat and Tippytoe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, May 23, 1914. By Eugene Field. All day long they come and go\u2014Pittypat and Tippytoe!    Footprints up and down the hall,        Playthings scattered on the floor,    Finger-marks along the wall,        Telltale smudges on the door\u2014By these presents you shall know,Pittypat and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-8228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers","tag-eugene-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228","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=8228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}