This is the other poem kytrad (Jean Ritchie) quoted from. Although it has nothing to do with dogs, she apparently thought they were all one poem.

From The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870 to 1885 by Slason Thompson (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, and Co., 1886), page 51:


MATTIE'S WANTS AND WISHES.

I wants a piece of talito
To make my doll a dress;
I doesn't want a big piece—
A yard'll do, I guess.

I wish you'd fred my needle,
And find my fimble, too—
I has such heaps o' sowin',
I don't know what to do.

My Hepsy tored her apron
A tum'lin' down the stair;
And Caesar 's lost his pantaloons,
And needs anozzer pair.

I wants my Maud a bonnet,
She hasn't none at all;
And Fred must have a jacket,
His uzzer one's too small.

I wants to go to grandma's,
You promised me I might;
I know she'll like to see me—
I wants to go to-night.

She lets me wash the dishes,
And see in grandpa's watch—
Wish I'd free, four pennies,
To buy some butter-scotch.

I wants some newer mittens,
I wish you'd knit me some,
'Cause 'most my fingers freezes,
They leak so in the fum.

I wored it out last summer
A-pullin' George's sled;
I wish you wouldn't laugh so—
It hurts my in my head.

I wish I had a cooky—
I'm hungry's I can be;
If you hasn't pretty large ones,
You'd better bring me free.