Poor Little Toddlekins
To understand this poem, it's useful to know that a toddlekins is a toddler. Skeeter is slang for mosquito and bodder means bother.
Poor Little Toddlekins
Poem
Poor little Toddlekins,
All full o' skeeter-bites-
"Bodder him awful,"
Baby can't sleep o' nights.
Buzzing all over him,
Singing and tickling,
In and out, round about,
Nipping and prickling.
Poor little Toddlekins,
All full o' skeeter-bites -
"Bodder him awful,"
Can't even sleep o' nights!
Notes
Written by Mary Mapes Dodge.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
Image edited by Lisa.
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