Poems and Stories

This book is about the baby whose parents let him stay over the weekend, day as well as the night, and the friend’s three sons coming during the summer vacation and staying until their mother went for a short while to visit others. Commenting about the people farthest south are friendliest. The physician’s and nurse’s children would go next door to play with their neighbors, and later in the afternoon, a story read the youngest child falling asleep. Other children knowing just what is going to be prepared for lunch. A little girl wanting to stay overnight and attending the Sunday Services, and the brother and sister who wanted to go home with me to sing with the church choir. These small people make up this environment most everyone could enjoy and were lucky enough to have experienced it all.

-- Beverly Wiley Burton