The Newer Lullaby

(“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?