i get a terr ble awful ache specially when it rains at first i was a fraidy cat but now i know it s growing pains gosh oh gee oh can t you see i ll soon be grown up tall so i ve got to think what i will be when i m no longer small when i grow up in a year or two or three i ll be happy as can be like a birdie in a tree when i grow up there s a lot i want to do i will have real dollies too like the woman in the shoe i want to be a teacher so the children can say teacher dear the gangs all here with apples today when i grow up i will have a big surprise for i ll bake the kind of pies that ll make you roll your eyes and if you see that you need some company you can call me up and i ll come down when i grow up when i am sweet sixteen i m going to a ball of all the ladies there i d like to be the best of all i ll wear a dress of silver and lace they ll call me princess curly i ll be like cinderella cept i won t run home so early i want to meet a handsome prince with a uniform of gold but i won t lose my slipper cause my tootsies might get cold i ll talk with queens and dance with kings like a little princess would if i could only do these things i promise i ll be good when i am twenty one i wish that i could look like the picture that i saw in a pretty story book a laur little girls were standing there much tinier than me and they all carried baskets they looked happy as can be every one was smiling and having lots of fun i wish that i could be like that when i am twenty one when i get very very old i ll stay at home all day but i haven t quite made up my mind it s much too far away i think that i would like to be like the lady on the wall she looks so nice and comfy in her rocking chair n all with that little cap upon her head she looks real pretty too i like her long and funny dress i like her hair don t you it must be oh so quiet you can hear the tick of the clock but it must be fun to have nothing to do but rock and rock and rock