{"id":69,"date":"2021-06-15T10:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&p=69"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T13:49:03","slug":"school-teacher-nells-lub-letter","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/school-teacher-nells-lub-letter\/","title":{"raw":"School-Teacher Nell's Lub-Letter","rendered":"School-Teacher Nell’s Lub-Letter"},"content":{"raw":"IF you promise to lub me alway,\r\nI will foreber be true,\r\nAn' you don't mek me sorry[footnote]Make me regret[\/footnote] I de day\r\nDat I give myself to you.\r\n\r\nHow I 'member de night when we meet,[footnote]How well I remember the night we met[\/footnote]\r\nAn' chat fe de first time of lub!\r\nI go home, an' den neber could eat\r\nNone o' de plateful o' grub.\r\n\r\nAn' de day it was empty to me,\r\nWakin', but dreamin' of you,\r\nWhile de school it was dull as could be,\r\nAn' me hate me wuk fe do.[footnote]I hated the doing of my work[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nOh, I knew of your lub long before\r\nMy school friends tell[footnote]Told[\/footnote] me of it,\r\nAnd I watch at you from de school door,\r\nWhen you pass to de cockpit.[footnote]A natural depression in the ground, in the vicinity of the author's home, bears this name[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nDen I hear too dat you use' fe talk,\r\nSay,[footnote]Used to (talk and) say[\/footnote] if you caan' ketch me dark night,\r\nYou would sure ketch me as me deh walk[footnote]You would be sure to catch me as I walked[\/footnote]\r\nIn a de[footnote]In the[\/footnote] open moonlight.\r\n\r\nAn' you' wud come to pass 4 very soon,\r\nFor scarcely a mont' did gone\r\nWhen de light of de star an' de moon\r\nShine[footnote]Shone[\/footnote] bright as we kiss all alone.\r\n\r\nI can neber remember de times\r\nMa scolded her little Nell;[footnote]I cannot count the number of scoldings I have had from mamma[\/footnote]\r\nAll day her tongue wuks like de chimes\r\nDat come from de old school-bell.\r\n\r\nI have given up school-life fe you:\r\nSweetheart, my all[footnote]Whole self[\/footnote] is your own ;\r\nDen say you will ever be true,\r\nAn' live fe you' Nellie alone.","rendered":"

IF you promise to lub me alway,
\nI will foreber be true,
\nAn’ you don’t mek me sorry[1]<\/sup><\/a> I de day
\nDat I give myself to you.<\/p>\n

How I ‘member de night when we meet,[2]<\/sup><\/a>
\nAn’ chat fe de first time of lub!
\nI go home, an’ den neber could eat
\nNone o’ de plateful o’ grub.<\/p>\n

An’ de day it was empty to me,
\nWakin’, but dreamin’ of you,
\nWhile de school it was dull as could be,
\nAn’ me hate me wuk fe do.[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, I knew of your lub long before
\nMy school friends tell[4]<\/sup><\/a> me of it,
\nAnd I watch at you from de school door,
\nWhen you pass to de cockpit.[5]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Den I hear too dat you use’ fe talk,
\nSay,[6]<\/sup><\/a> if you caan’ ketch me dark night,
\nYou would sure ketch me as me deh walk[7]<\/sup><\/a>
\nIn a de[8]<\/sup><\/a> open moonlight.<\/p>\n

An’ you’ wud come to pass 4 very soon,
\nFor scarcely a mont’ did gone
\nWhen de light of de star an’ de moon
\nShine[9]<\/sup><\/a> bright as we kiss all alone.<\/p>\n

I can neber remember de times
\nMa scolded her little Nell;[10]<\/sup><\/a>
\nAll day her tongue wuks like de chimes
\nDat come from de old school-bell.<\/p>\n

I have given up school-life fe you:
\nSweetheart, my all[11]<\/sup><\/a> is your own ;
\nDen say you will ever be true,
\nAn’ live fe you’ Nellie alone.<\/p>\n

  1. Make me regret ↵<\/a><\/li>
  2. How well I remember the night we met ↵<\/a><\/li>
  3. I hated the doing of my work ↵<\/a><\/li>
  4. Told ↵<\/a><\/li>
  5. A natural depression in the ground, in the vicinity of the author's home, bears this name ↵<\/a><\/li>
  6. Used to (talk and) say ↵<\/a><\/li>
  7. You would be sure to catch me as I walked ↵<\/a><\/li>
  8. In the ↵<\/a><\/li>
  9. Shone ↵<\/a><\/li>
  10. I cannot count the number of scoldings I have had from mamma ↵<\/a><\/li>
  11. Whole self ↵<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":15,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-69","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/69\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}