As we approach this year’s Independence Day, let us count our blessings and digits.
This poem, published on the front page of the July 2, 1903 edition of The Chatham Record takes a fatalistic approach:
A JUNE FOREBODING.
Willie has five fingers
On each boyish hand;
Willie likewise has ten toes
Upon which to stand.
But a doubt comes o’er us,
Tear drops dew our eye.
Will he have so many
On the 5th of next July?
Willie has two eyebrows
Each in proper place;
Has his ears and cheeks and chin
Safe upon his face.
And we foldle Willie
As we softly sigh,
“Will he still possess them
On the 5th of next July?”
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