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We put more coal on the big red fire, / And while we are waiting for dinner to cook, / Our father comes and tells us about / A story that he has read in a book.
And Charles and Will and Dick and I / And all of us but Clarence are there. / And some of us sit on Father's legs, / But one has to sit on the little red chair.
And when we are sitting very still, / He sings us a song or tells a piece; / He sings Dan Tucker Went to Town, / Or he tells us about the golden fleece.
He tells about the golden wool, / And some of it is about a boy / Named Jason, and about a ship, / And some is about a town called Troy.
And while he is telling or singing it through, / I stand by his arm, for that is my place. / And I push my fingers into his skin / To make little dents in his big rough face.