Little Bateese Comments

I memorized a poem of this name, but it was different

An absolutely awful rendering of one of my childhood classics😡😡

An absolutely awful rendering of one of my childhood classics😡😡

70 years ago my mother would recite this poem to us With the right accent We loved it.

My dad used to recite this poem from memory, it was made extra funny because of his German accent. I am 72 and I still can hear him reciting it.

It's one of the few poems that brings me to tears.

I won an oratory contest reciting this many years ago can’t remember what grade but it was in our reader.

I love this poem because my grade 9 literature teacher read it so beautifully I'll never forget. I'm 70 now. That's a great teacher!

One t'ing dat double-jointed leetle Bateese will be is a sitter for Ireland's Got Talent

When I was in Grade six, my teacher, as a form of discipline, made me memorize and recite this poem before the class. I did it. Never forgot the poem. In fact, on my 60th birthday, a friend from those years gave me a copy of Leetle Bateese, with a note: Remember.

Enjoyed this immensely. That Grandfather fussing at the little boy and every bit of that fussing showed how much he loved his Grandson! ! I wish I had had such Grandfather love surrounding my childhood misbehaviors!

William Henry Drummond was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world, and one of the most widely-read and loved poets in Canada. (This from his biography.) You have to get into the spirit of the contrived dialog to really enjoy this, but it can be done! I enjoyed how he used a few French words in the poem.

Ok fine...................

Amusing poem and perhaps written for children. Thanks for sharing.

Wrong Behavior! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.