EXLIBRIS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 JOHN HEW NASH JBRARY 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
 PRESENTED TO THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 ROBERT GORDON SPROUL, PRESIDENT. 
 BY 
 
 MR.ANDMRS.MILTON S.RAY 
 CECILY, VIRGINIA AND ROSALYN RAY 
 
 AND THE 
 
 RAY OIL BURNER COMPANY 
 
LITTLE WILLIE BY EUGENE FIELD 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 PRIVATELY PRINTED 
 
 1921 
 
This edition comprising two hundred copies was printed 
 by John Henry Nash of San Francisco for Louis A. Kohn 
 of Chicago in Oftober, Nineteen Hundred & Twenty -one. 
 
HEN Willie was a little boy 
 
 Not more than five or six, 
 Right constantly he did annoy 
 
 His mother with hu tricks. 
 Yet not a picayune cared I 
 
 For what he did or said. 
 Unless, as happened frequently, 
 
 The rascal wet the bed. 
 
LOSELY he cuddled up to me 
 
 And put hh hands in mine, 
 Till all at once I seemed to be 
 
 Afloat in seas of brine. 
 Sabean odors clogged the air 
 
 And filled my soul with dread } 
 Yet I could only grin and bear 
 
 When Willie wet the bed. 
 
IS many times that rascal has 
 
 Soaked all the bedclothes through, 
 Whereat Td feebly light the gas 
 
 And wonder what to do. 
 Yet there he lay, so peaceful like; 
 
 God bless hi* curly head, 
 I quite for gave the little tyke 
 
 For wetting of the bed. 
 
H me ! those happy days have flown, 
 
 My boy 's a father too, 
 And little Willies of his own 
 
 Do what he wed to do. 
 And I, ah, all that 's left for me 
 
 Are dreams of pleasures fled; 
 Our boys ain 't what they used to be 
 
 When Willie wet the bed. 
 
AD / my choice no shapely dame 
 
 Should share my couch with me, 
 No amorous jade oftarnhhedfame, 
 
 No wench of high degree. 
 But I would choose and choose again 
 
 The little curly head, 
 Who cuddled close beside me when 
 
 He wed to wet the bed. 
 
NOTE : Mr. Field said that his wife took the boy away 
 on a visit, and he found in their absence he couldn't 
 deep till he got up and poured water on his nightshirt.