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Alice Duer Miller

(”Good heavens, when I think what the young boy of to-day is growing up
to I gasp. He has too many women around him all the time. He has his
mother when he is a baby.”—Bernard Fagin, Probation Officer.)


Hush-a-bye, baby,
  Feel no alarm,
Gunmen shall guard you,
  Lest Mother should harm.
Wake in your cradle,
  Hear father curse!
Isn’t that better
  Than Mother or Nurse?

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