🧒 Raggety Man Live Reading Junior Classics Library #kids #books #favourites #traditional

0:00The Raggedy Man, by James W. Riley, from the Junior Classics Volume 10 Part 1, poems Old and New, read for leaprepox.org. Oh, the Raggedy Man, he works for Pa, and he's the goodest man ever you saw, comes to our house every day and waters the horses and feeds him hay, and he opens the shed, and we all list laugh when he drives out our little wobbly calf. And then, if our hired girl says he can, he milks the cow for Lisbethan, and he an awful kind Raggedy Man, Raggedy Raggedy Raggedy Man. While the Raggedy Man is so good, he splits the kindling and chops the wood, and then he spades in our garden too, and does most things that boys can't do. He climbed clean up in our big tree and shook a apple down for me, and another and two for Lisbethan, and other and two for the Raggedy Man.

1:00And he an awful kind Raggedy Man, Raggedy Raggedy Raggedy Man. And the Raggedy Man, he knows most rhymes and tells them if I be good sometimes, knows about giants and griffins and elves, and the squid it comes squeeze that swallers themselves. And wipe by the pump and our pasture lot, he showed me the hole that the wunks has got, that lives way down deep in the ground and can turn into me, or Lisbethan, any a funny old Raggedy Man, Raggedy Raggedy Raggedy Man. The Raggedy Man, one time when he was making a little hole in or he firming, says, when you're big like your pie is, air you go to keep the fine store like his, and be a rich merchant, and wear fine clothes, or what air you go to be, goodness knows. And then he laughed at Lisbethan, and I says, em go to be a Raggedy Man. I must go to be a nice Raggedy Man, Raggedy Raggedy Raggedy Man.

2:01And up home, this recording is in the public domain.