Excerpt from Patriotic Recitations: Together With Ninety-Nine Other Choice Readings and Recitations; This Choice Collection of Recitations Includes, in Addition to All of the Well Known Patriotic Pieces Many Others Suitable for Readings on All Occasions It caught the youngster, and tossed him high. The bounce prodigious made baby scowl: He caught his breath, sir, and set up a howl. And blessed that awning that had no aw, But a madder baby you never saw. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."