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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jingles, by Winifred Sackville Stoner,
-Jr.
-
-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and
-most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
-whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms
-of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at
-www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you
-will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before
-using this eBook.
-
-Title: Jingles
-
-Author: Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr.
-
-Illustrator: Karl Kae Knecht
-
-Release Date: May 17, 2022 [eBook #68113]
-
-Language: English
-
-Produced by: Charlene Taylor, Jwala Kumar Sista and the Online
- Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This
- file was produced from images generously made available by
- The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
-
-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JINGLES ***
-
-
- Transcriber's Notes
-
- 1. Table of Contents with title-wise navigation-links, added by the
- transcriber.
-
- 2. Typographical errors and hyphenation inconsistencies were silently
- corrected.
-
- 3. Some illustrations appearing before chapter heading in the
- original, are placed next to heading of relevant chapter.
-
- 4. The text version is coded for italics and other mark-ups i.e.,
- (a) Italics are indicated thus _italic_;
- (b) Smallcaps thus +Caps+; and
- (c) Images are indicated as [Illustration: (with narration...)]
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-
-
- JINGLES
-
-
-
-
- JINGLES
-
- [Illustration: decorative mark]
-
- WRITTEN FOR DEAR FRIENDS
- BY
- WINIFRED SACKVILLE STONER, Jr.
- (When five and six years of age)
-
- [Illustration: decorative mark]
-
- ILLUSTRATED BY
- KARL KAE KNECHT
-
- Copyright 1909 Smith & Butterfield, Publishers
- Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr. Evansville, Ind.
-
-
- Table of Contents.
-
- Chapter Page
-
- A Christmas Wish For All My Friends 6
-
- PREFACE 7
-
- _AUTHOR AT ONE YEAR OLD_ _Plate 1_
-
- The Pet's Christmas Carol 9
-
- A Great Surprise 9
-
- Santa's Reindeer In The Sky 10
-
- Nissen, The Santa Claus of Norway 13
-
- After The Fourth Was Over 14
-
- A Kitten Gone To Waste 15
-
- The New Baby 15
-
- Woes Caused By Whooping Bugs 16
-
- How Simple Simon Became Wise 16
-
- _AUTHOR AT TWO YEARS OLD_ _Plate 2_
-
- Too Many Dolls 17
-
- The Cat Extincted The Canary 17
-
- A Boy's Complaint 18
-
- Koppa After Pi 18
-
- A Whingwang Sonnet Of An Easter Bonnet 19
-
- The Giant Arithmos 20
-
- Good Weather Assured 20
-
- Roosevelt Complimented By Mama Lion 21
-
- All Dentists Go To Heaven 21
-
- The Time Of His Life 22
-
- King Teddy, The Fearless 23
-
- Good Bye To Teddy Bears 23
-
- Cats A Kissin (Catechism) 23
-
- Hens 24
-
- _AUTHOR AT THREE YEARS OLD_ _Plate 3_
-
- Please Grandpa, Croak 25
-
- Wee Willie's First Hair Cut 25
-
- Wise Replies 25
-
- It Takes A Cigar A Long Time To Wear Out 26
-
- An Esperanto Poem Plain To All 26
-
- Answers, Not Questions, Cause Trouble 27
-
- The Pure Blooded Pup 28
-
- Too ticklish to Count His Ribs 30
-
- The Young Mail Carrier 31
-
- On Thanksgiving 31
-
- Living Valentines Presented By Cupid 32
-
- _AUTHOR AT FOUR YEARS OLD_ _Plate 4_
-
- Universal Peace 34
-
- All The World Cries 35
-
- Could Only Ask Questions 35
-
- Let The Bumble Be 36
-
- Take That Gum from Your mouth And Put Your feet In 37
-
- The Tersest Bathing Suit 37
-
- Furs Lined With Kittens 38
-
- A Boy's Description Of A Goat 38
-
- A Riddle 39
-
- Grandpa's Head Cums Frew His Hair 39
-
- Susan Rewarded For Twenty Year's Service 40
-
- _AUTHOR AT FIVE YEARS OLD_ _Plate 5_
-
- Bridget Makes Split Pea Soup 41
-
- Lazy White Men Sit While Flying Through The Air 41
-
- To Save Him From A Whipping 42
-
- A Skillet In Society (Alias A Chafing Dish) 43
-
- Autos Change Good Luck 44
-
- A Boy Who Was Hero And villian 45
-
- Wise Ignatius Escapes A Whipping 46
-
- Nervous Jelly 47
-
- One Johnson More, One Smith Less 48
-
- _AUTHOR AT SIX YEARS OLD_ _Plate 6_
-
- Pride 49
-
- Job Smarter Than Modern Babies 50
-
- Only Naughty Children See "Spooks" On Hallow'een 51
-
- Six Year Old Girl Writes Poem Hoping To Save Forest Trees 52
-
- An Appeal To The Fairies 52
-
-
-[Illustration: Illustrator writes and signs as: _Best Wishes to my
-little friend, Miss Winifred S. Stoner Jr., whose delightful Jingles
-I like to illustrate_--_K. K. Knecht_]
-
-
- [Illustration: THE AUTHOR]
-
-The author of these little rhymes, which have been previously
-published in "The Evansville Courier" and several other publications,
-was born in Norfolk, Virginia, August 19, 1902. From her babyhood
-days she has been a great lover of poetry and began composing
-original rhymes when but three years of age.
-
-
-
-
- A Christmas Wish
- For All My Friends
-
-
- While Christmas bells are chiming, oh, may there come to you
- A dear sweet little fairy, who's always good and true;
- The little HAPPY FAIRY, who drives away dull care,
- And makes all things upon the earth seem ever bright and fair.
-
- She'll whisper to good Santa to bring what you most wish;
- So if you have been longing for a fine pudding dish,
- He will not, as in by-gone years, forget and bring to you
- Something that you do not want, though beautiful and new.
-
- The HAPPY FAIRY'S MAGIC is in this wondrous leaf,
- Which drives away all "bogies," and banishes all grief;
- So if you would be happy, wealthy, wise and well.
- Kiss the MAGIC WISHING LEAF from HAPPY FAIRY'S DELL.
-
-
-
-
- PREFACE
-
-
-This little book is dedicated to all of my relatives and to the
-following friends:
-
-Mrs. Lucy Dillard Tabb Okeson, Miss Fannie F. Sams. Mr. and Mrs.
-William Webb, Misses Blanche, Helen and Wydie Webb, Mrs. William
-Sharp, Mrs. Mc Alpine, Miss Rebekah Mc Alpine, Mrs. John C. Taylor, Dr.
-and Mrs. Adams, Walter and Forestall Adams, Miss Isabelle Nusbaum,
-Virginia Leigh Morris, Bertram and Virginius Nusbaum, Mr. Albert
-Warrington, Neely Warrington, Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Nusbaum, Mrs.
-Charles Rowland, Elsie Rowland, Fred Riddle, Barry and Wilson Dodson,
-Eugenie and Richard Jones, Christine Neubauer, of Norfolk, Virginia.
-
-Doctor Zamenhof, Warsaw, Poland; Prof. George Macloskie, LL. D. D.
-Sc., of Princeton University; Mrs. George Macloskia, Princeton, N.
-J.; M. Edmond Privat, Geneva, Switzerland; Mr. Sharon O. Brown,
-Providence, R. I.; Mr. Charles E. Randall, Seattle, Washington;
-Mrs. William Westcott, Holley, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. William Warren,
-Newburgh, Ind.
-
-Mr. Arthur Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Guthrie, Mrs. A. R.
-Hornbrook, Dr. Walter H. Fox, Miss Berthe Papot, Miss Dorothy
-Millican, Miss Polly Young, of Chicago, Illinois.
-
-Prof. Edwin C. Reed, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts, of
-the Christian Herald: Dr. D. O. S. Lowell, of Roxbury Latin School;
-Rev. Horace Dutton, of the Christian Endeavor World; Dr. William
-Gray Nowell, Mr. John Fogg Twombly, Miss Eugenie Ohman, of Boston,
-Mass.; Edwin and Dorothy Ehrman, of Rockport, Ind.; Dr. W. Addis,
-Guaymas, Mexico; Mrs. Maybelle Anderson, Haverhill, Mass.; Miss
-Ella Thomas, Monterey, Cal.; Dorothy Kirk, DesMoines, Iowa, Miss
-J. E. Hamand, Schaller, Iowa; Mrs. Annie H. McDermid, Fontanelle,
-Iowa; Mrs. Robert Winthrop Barr and Nelson Barr, Chattanooga, Tenn.;
-Mrs. Maria T. Bird, Rockland, Maine: Mr. Harry Warren, Mr. Frank
-Kirkpatrick, Cincinnati, Ohio; Miss Ruth Rickinson, Columbus, Ohio;
-Dr. Clara Todson and Mr. Joseph Burila, Elgin, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs.
-Ellis Dungan, Barton, Ohio; Mr. Herbert M. Scott, Moundsville, W.
-Va.; Miss Mary F. Kelly Brambleton, Va.; Mrs. W. W. Davies, Richmond,
-Va.; Earl Stratton, Jamestown, N. Y.; Miss Lois L. White and Mrs. W.
-D. Christman, Washington, Pa.; Max Bosquet, Roanne et Loire, France;
-Miss Emily Allen, Miss Jessie and Mary Eggleson, Dr. Levi Old, of
-Norfolk, Va.
-
-Mrs. Linna Hennig Sherman, Miss Adaline Sherman, Mrs. Flora Williams,
-Mrs. Alma Shafer, Dr. W. S. Hamilton, Prof. Walter Ross, Prof. C. C.
-Brilles, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Vester, Mrs. J. W. Bryan, Miss Elizabeth
-Dean, Miss Margaret O'Brien, of Wheeling, W. Va.
-
-Mrs. John Speed, Memphis. Tenn.; Mr. Frank Royster, Colorado Springs,
-Col.; Dr. Chase, Galveston, Texas; Prof. John E. McFadyen, Mr. and
-Mrs. Max Arno Frind, Mr. Robert Sangster, of Toronto, Canada.
-
-Mrs. Lyde Morrow Petty, Miss Edith Edeburn, Leicester and Kenneth
-Fisher, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. King, Mr. James G.
-Diller, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Lieutenant Arthur Crenshaw, U. S. N.;
-Mrs. Arthur Crenshaw, Shanghai, China; Major H. W. Yemans, U. S. A.;
-Capt. G. W. Kirkpatrick, U. S. A.; Francisko Yamota, Osake, Japan.
-
-Prof. Clayton R. Bowen, Mrs. Margaret Bowen, Meadville, Pa.; Misses
-Mame, Jennie and Gwen Leo, Master Chap Leo, Mrs. L. H. Hall, Mr. and
-Mrs. Frank Montgomery, Gertrude, Jean and Richard Montgomery. Mrs.
-Thompson, Mrs. Lloyd, Mr. J. C. Spencer, Miss Eleanor Long, of Erie,
-Pa.
-
-In Evansville, Indiana: The Editors of "THE COURIER," Mr. Henry C.
-Murphy, Mr. Howard Roosa, Mr. Percy Carroll, Mr. Karl Kae Knecht,
-Master John Speed Murphy, Miss Josephine Greene, Mr. Alfred Greene,
-Master Howard Roosa, Miss O'Hara, Mary Sisson, Virginia Whittemore,
-Marjory Moore, Alice Ashby, Martha Denby, Margaret Ruston, Virginia
-Clarke, Miss Irene Jenner, Lawrence Jenner, Horace and Fred Cross,
-Fritz and Ralph Dryborough, Wesley and John Downer, Oscar Uhl,
-Jep Hardig, Raymond Chesley, Walter Weber, Misses Anna and Ella
-Runcie, Edna and Alma Speck, Margaret Bacon, Loraine Cutler, Sallie
-Whittemore, Salibelle Royster, Janie Sonntag, Katherine Imbusch,
-Otilda, Margaret and Katharine Goslee, Harriet Knauth, Katherine
-Lewis, Halene Busse, Caroline Patrick, Suzette Dunlevy, Katherine
-Wellman, Dorothy Hannett, Mrs. M. O. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
-Runcie, Dr. L. D. Brose, Mr. Marshall White, Edgar and Melville
-Garvin, Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Royster, Ruth Helen Birt, Charles
-Sherwood, Mr. Neal Waledn, Mary, Frances, Helen and Hugh Harris,
-Charlie Donnelly, Glenn Kirkpatrick, Bertha White.
-
-Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Wocher, Mrs. Katherine Brown, Mrs. John Candee
-Dean, Mrs. William Turner, Miss Mary McEvoy, Miss Ethel Black
-Kealing, of Indianapolis, Ind.
-
-Mrs. Anna Chase Brainard, Dr. S. Y. Howell, Mr. Edward F. Graham, Mr.
-Russell R. Johnson, of Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. and Mrs. W. Baker, Terre
-Haute, Ind.
-
-
- Plate 1: [Illustration: AUTHOR AT ONE YEAR OLD]
-
-
-
-
- The Pet's Christmas Carol
-
- [Illustration: Pet's Christmas Carol]
-
-
- "Tweet-tweet-tweet!" sang the canary,
- Which meant that he was very merry,
- Because his little mistress Nell,
- On Christmas eve had fed him well.
-
- "Bow-wow-wow!" sang the gay young pup,
- "My master's gone away to sup,
- But though he won't be here for tea,
- Just see the meal he left for me!"
-
- "Mew-mew-mew!" sang the mamma cat,
- "Such milk as this will make me fat,
- And oh, I feel so very gay
- This cold and frosty Christmas day."
-
- Each mamma cow sang "Moo-moo-moo!"
- And gentle dove sang "Coo-coo-coo!"
- And every horse and sheep and pig,
- And duck and chicken, small and big,
- A carol sang on Christmas eve,
- Because a FEAST each did receive.
-
-
-
-
- A Great Surprise
-
- (Written for Mother and Daddy.)
-
-
- On the nineteenth day of August, in the year of nineteen two,
- Most kind and gracious Madame Stork right over Norfolk flew,
- And brought to my dear mother there a wonderful surprise,
- A little red brown baby girl with large blackberry eyes.
- Now, mother she had asked the stork to bring to her much joy,
- And drop a bundle at her door containing a wee boy,
- But when the stork made a mistake and brought just little me,
- She thought that I was better far than any boy could be.
- And wrapped me in the blanket which she'd planned for my wee brother,
- And which my dear "MA MIE" had knit to help my busy mother.
- She changed the name of Lionel to little Winifred,
- And all the things for brother planned, she gave to me instead.
-
-
-
-
- Santa's Reindeer In The Sky
-
- (Written for Grandmother Sackville.)
-
- [Illustration: SANTA'S AEROPLANE]
-
-
- Long, long ago, before this earth had any girls and boys
- To hang their stockings on the shelf, expecting Christmas toys,
- Good Santa was a big white cloud that floated in the sky;
- if you had lived in those old days, you'd seen him floating by.
-
- But when the children came to rule upon good Mother Earth,
- She took kind Santa from the sky and made him God of Mirth;
- To bring at every Christmas time good gifts to girls and boys
- And make them all so happy with a lot of lovely toys.
-
- Far, far among the icebergs, in the cold and freezing zone,
- She built for him a palace, where he lives almost alone,
- With only good old Mrs. Claus to keep him company,
- And sometimes Cousin Nicholas for two days or for three.
-
- Wise Mother Earth she knew this clime would suit good Santa well,
- For here no foolish, idle folks would ever come to dwell;
- Nor pay the good Saint visits which would waste his precious time,
- While he could work much faster here than in a warmer clime.
-
- But never did he suffer from the icebergs at the Pole,
- As Fairies kept his fireplace all full of red hot coal;
- Or heaped bright burning logs on it as full as it could hold,
- So Santa never felt at all old Jack Frost's biting cold.
-
- Likewise these Fairies brought to him and his most faithful spouse,
- Just everything that they could need to keep a cozy house,
- And even cooked their victuals and brought them every day
- Exactly at the proper time, upon a huge hot tray.
-
- And after they had eaten all the dainties on the tiny,
- The good kind fairies they would come and take the tray away;
- So Mrs. Claus had no excuse for being cross or sad,
- Since no experience she had had with Bridgets getting mad.
-
- When Santa finished all his toys, he put them in a sack,
- Where he intended carrying them upon his great broad back,
- But Mother Earth surprised the saint and to his palace led
- Eight lovely prancing reindeer and a large commodious sled.
-
- These reindeer were the cousins of swift Pegasus, the steed
- Who helped the hero Perseus when he was in great need;
- And like the flying hero horse, they lived up in the sky,
- 'Till Mother Earth had need of them to help old Santa fly.
-
- And so on every Christmas eve for full ten hundred years,
- Good Santa and his reindeer fleet have banished childrens' tears,
- By bringing them 'most all the gifts their little hearts could wish,
- And filling stockings, shoes and plates and great round pudding dish.
-
- But when last Christmas came around, good Mother Earth she said,
- "Dear Santa I have something fine for you to use instead
- Of your good, faithful reindeer and your big old fashioned sled,
- For here's a lovely aeroplane all painted shining red."
-
- The wise old lady then declared that he could safely fly
- With this machine 'most anywhere away up in the sky,
- And travel far, far faster than reindeer who were fleet
- But stumbled sometimes on the roofs made slippery with sleet.
-
- The aeroplane could carry well a larger load of toys,
- So he could visit more good girls and also little boys,
- Who live in far off heathen lands where everyone's a sinner,
- But that's no reason each should do without a Christmas dinner.
-
- With this machine he'd save some time to look out for each pet
- Of all the little girls and boys as they so oft forget
- To treat their pets most kindly upon the Christmas morn
- In memory of the Saviour, who on this day was born.
-
- And likewise all the horses, the cows and pigs and sheep,
- For men so seldom think of them when Christmas time they keep;
- And even wild, fierce animals, and fishes in the sea,
- Should all be made quite happy at Christmas time to be.
-
- "I do not like this plan at all of giving up my sled
- And my good faithful reindeer," so good old Santa said.
- But Mother Earth she laughed at him and said she would repay
- The reindeer, whom she would send home, straight to the milky way.
-
- But Santa was old fashioned and had great fears to fly
- Without his sled and reindeer, he'd used in years gone by,
- And begged that on his maiden trip these true old friends to take
- To help him should the aeroplane prove but a wicked fake.
-
- The laughing Earth she granted him this very small request,
- And early on glad Christmas eve (the eve of all most blest),
- He started forth upon his trip, did good old Santa, dear,
- Guiding his Wright aeroplane with feelings of great fear.
-
- But Mother Earth showed she was wise and knew just what was best
- To help the good old tired saint while on his children quest;
- And fast the good Wright aeroplane it flew both low and high,
- So Santa took the Earth's advice, and though he heaved a sigh,
-
- He dropped the poor old worn out sled as he was passing by,
- And people said, who saw it fall, "A METEOR FROM THE SKY!"
- Then kissing each good reindeer, he bade them all farewell,
- And left them in the MILKY WAY, forever there to dwell.
-
- And you, my little children, who have heard the tiny hoofs
- Of the little flying steeds pattering on the roofs,
- If you would like to catch a glimpse of Santa's good reindeer,
- Then wait until it's dark some night, and when the sky is clear,
- You'll see them very plainly in the broad light MILKY WAY,
- And there for all the time to come, these steeds will romp and play.
-
- [Illustration: Santa's reindeer & Little children]
-
-
- * * * * *
-
-Written for my Godmother, Mrs. Lucy Dillard Tabb Okeson, of Norfolk, Va.
-
-
- When I was one year old,
- So often I've been told,
- Dear "Ma Mie" sang to me
- This cunning poetry:
- "Mousie, pousie, wousie,
- In the Boush Street Housie,"
- And always from that time
- I've loved to make a rhyme,
- So if it be my fate
- To write a poem great,
- Then dearest, sweet "Ma Mie,"
- The praise belongs to thee.
-
-
-
-
- Nissen, The Santa Claus of Norway
-
- [Illustration: +Nissen+]
-
- (The story told in this rhyme was sent to the author by her
-globe-trotting friend, Mrs. William Westcott, from Christiana, Norway.)
-
-
- How glad I am that I was born in this land very dear,
- Where children have a Santa Claus of whom they have no fear;
- A Santa who is always kind, remembering one and all,
- When every year at Christmas time, he pays us all a call.
-
- In far away chill Norway, there NISSEN is the name
- Of the Christmas visitor who bears good Santa's fame;
- But he's a naughty brownie, so short and very small;
- Not a bit like Santa, who is large and fat and tall.
-
- But like our good gift giver, his beard is long and white,
- And he wears a coat of furs and many colors bright;
- But instead of bringing goodies to good girls and to boys,
- Nice new clothes and books and games and lots of wondrous toys.
-
- He expects that all the big folks and also little ones,
- Should leave his favorite dishes, such as puddings, cakes and buns,
- Outside of every doorway, so that he may eat at will
- Of these luscious dainties until he has had his fill.
-
- Then after eating all the cakes his "Tummy-tum" can hold,
- He milks the cows and splits the wood (at least so I've been told),
- But never thinks to bring nice gifts to little girls and boys,
- Whose parents have to trim their trees and buy them all their toys.
-
- Besides, this naughty NISSEN is cross at times and bad,
- And does all sorts of horrid tricks, which I think very sad
- At Christmas, when we all should be so kind to one another
- And treat each person whom we meet as if he were our brother.
-
- But NISSEN steals away the cows and even horses fleet,
- From all the people who forget to bake him puddings sweet;
- And if above a whisper one should dare to speak or sing
- About this cranky fellow, then this evil he will bring
- Upon the one who dared to throw, his name upon the breeze,
- As from that time the guilty one must sneeze and sneeze and sneeze.
-
- Now in our land we sing loud praise of Santa all the time,
- And tell about his goodness great, in prose and jingling rhyme;
- And yet it seems the more we sing about the jolly elf,
- The more he brings each year to us upon the mantel shelf.
-
- But children in far Norway are better girls and boys
- Than we who live in this fair land and think so much of toys,
- That we forget about the pets while feeding our own selves,
- Like thoughtless, greedy little pigs or naughty selfish elves.
-
- While Norway children in the fall they work to gather corn,
- And save it for the birds they feed on every Christmas morn,
- So we should follow in their steps and feed the wee birds crumbs,
- Before we start to feast ourselves on Christmas sugar plums.
-
-
-
-
- After The Fourth Was Over
-
- (Written for Uncle Lionel Sackville.)
-
- [Illustration: NISSEN PLAYING TRICKS]
-
-
- After the Fourth was over, after the play was done,
- Poor little John and Willie forgot that they'd had some fun;
- John, with his eyes all bandaged, Willie with one eye gone,
- Had changed from joyous boys, who rose with the FOURTH'S bright dawn,
- Determined to shoot great cannons and frighten some silly girls,
- To tie big crackers to dogs' tails, and make the pin wheels whirl.
-
- Tommy with one hand bound up and with a bepowdered face,
- Alex with two burned fingers and bones nearly all out of place;
- Edgar with one leg broken and poor little Peter with two,
- Thought that they'd had enough sorrow to last them a whole life
- through,
- But mother, who heard them crying, while soothing her darlings to
- sleep,
- Was thankful that some of the pieces she yet was able to keep,
- And sad for the weeping mother of poor naughty, unlucky Jim,
- As the booming JULY CELEBRATION blew the whole head off of him.
-
-
-
-
- A Kitten Gone To Waste
-
-(This story was told to the author by Mrs. William Warren, of Newburgh,
- Indiana.)
-
- [Illustration: Kitten gone to waste]
-
-
- When little Mary Alice was only three years old,
- She went upon a visit to Aunt Maria Hold,
- A lady who was noted for saving everything,
- From gold and silver dollars down to a turkey wing.
-
- She soon taught Mary Alice to never throw away
- A single bit of anything which might be used "some day,"
- And Alice, who was clever, she learned to put away
- All bits of ribbon, cloth and lace, and chicken feathers gay.
-
- Each day she kept quite busy hunting something more
- Which she could take to Auntie or add to her own store;
- And one day in excitement, she ran in greatest haste,
- Crying, "Oh, dear Auntie, sumfins don to waste!
- A perfectlee dood kitty is thrown out on the dump
- Of the kitchen ash-pile, behind the garden pump!"
-
- [Illustration: decorative end-mark]
-
-
-
-
- The New Baby
-
- (Written for Alfred Greene, Jr., Evansville, Indiana.)
-
-
- When Alfred saw the baby wee the stork to him had brought,
- He stood quite silent for a while and thought and thought and thought
- Until he'd solved the problem about the CURIOUS ONE
- Who'd traveled far from Storkland, though she couldn't walk nor run.
- Then to his mother he declared in accents of dismay,
- "Dear mother we must send this kid back to her home to-day,
- 'Cause someone's cheated us I know and brought us an old child
- With bald head and without a tooth and like an Indian wild."
- Whenever it begins to cry it almost lifts the roof,
- So mother, dear, I think 'tis best for you to keep aloof
- From the old ugly Indian thing and send it to Stork-land,
- Then you and I'll be glad again and go to hear the band.
-
-
-
-
- Woes Caused By Whooping Bugs
-
- (Written for Cousin Harvey Stoner, Jr.)
-
- [Illustration: Woes caused by bugs]
-
-
- If you don't believe that whooping cough causes lots of woe,
- Just catch a few of whooping germs and then I guess you'll know
- That whoopee-whoop! and wheepee-wheeps! are not one bit of fun,
- When you see others playing games where all must jump and run,
- For if you jump or if you run, you start the whoop-oop-oop!
- And even when you're tired you can't sleep for the croup,
- Caused by the awful whooping bugs, which lurk within your throat
- And make your voice sound hoarser than the singing of a goat.
-
- For fear of spreading whooping-bugs you certainly can't go
- To Sunday-school or other school, or even to a show,
- But you must stay at home ALONE from three to six long weeks,
- And listen to your croaking voice, which whoops and sometimes squeaks.
- So therefore take the good advice of a little girl who knows,
- And stay away from WHOOPING-COUGH, which causes lots of woes.
-
- [Illustration: decorative end-mark]
-
-
-
-
- How Simple Simon Became Wise
-
- (Written for "St. Nicholas," February, 1909.)
-
-
- Simple Simon met young Heiman reading from a book,
- Said Simple Simon to young Heiman, "Let me have a look?"
- Said young Heiman to Simple Simon, "I will not selfish be,
- My great delight, ST. NICHOLAS, I'll gladly let you see."
-
- Then Simple Simon and young Heiman spent an hour or two
- Reading from this wondrous book, so full of all that's true,
- And when they'd finished Simon lad of Mother Goose's fame,
- By virtue of his knowledge great, WISE SIMON, he became.
-
-
- Plate 2: [Illustration: AUTHOR AT TWO YEARS OLD]
-
-
-
-
- Too Many Dolls
-
- (Written for Wydie Webb, of Norfolk, Va.)
-
-
- Miss Margaret Mary Elizabeth May,
- Had one hundred dollies with which she could play,
- There were bisque dolls and wax dolls and dolls with real hair,
- Red dolls and black dolls and dolls that were fair,
- Fat dolls and plump dolls and dolls in the style,
- Hipless and jointless and dressed in a smile;
- Rag dolls and wood dolls and celluloid boys,
- China and paper and Jumping Jack Joys;
- Irish and Scotch dolls and dolls from Paris,
- And all of the strange lands from over the sea;
- Japies and Chinese and dark Esquimos,
- Dutchies and Germans and cutest Dagoes;
- Dollies from Egypt and dollies from Spain,
- Hindoos and Hebrews and one little Dane.
- From Poland and Russia they'd traveled afar
- By railroad and steamer and also by car
- To join other dollies from Johnnie Bull's home,
- And lovely Italians from far away Rome.
- From Greenland and Iceland, Norway and Greece,
- The string of these dollies seemed never to cease.
- But Margaret Mary Elizabeth May
- Could never decide with which doll to play,
- So she was not happy as poor little Sue,
- Who in her doll family had only two
- Wretched rag dollies without any hair,
- But which she considered a most lovely pair,
- And these ugly dollies they gave her delight,
- As with them she played from morning 'till night.
-
- [Illustration: decorative end-mark]
-
-
-
-
- The Cat Extincted The Canary
-
- (Written for Josephine Greene, Evansville, Ind.)
-
- [Illustration: Naughty pussy cat extincted the canary]
-
-
- "Josephine," asked the teacher, "can you tell to me
- Any bird that's now extinct, but used on earth to be?"
-
- "Oh, yes, Miss Jane," said Josephine, "our sweet canary, Jim,
- Because the naughty pussy cat she quite extincted him."
-
-
-
-
- A Boy's Complaint
-
- (Written for John Speed Murphy, Evansville, Indiana.)
-
- [Illustration: "BABEE"]
-
- Grandma calls me Johnnie, father calls me John,
- My sweetheart calls me Buddy, and the boys call me Don,
- But mother, oh dear mother, whenever I come near,
- She calls me darling BABY and sometimes "BABY DEAR."
-
- I like the name of Johnnie, I'm proud of my name John,
- I don't mind hearing Buddy and the shorter name of Don,
- But though I love dear mother far more than all the rest,
- Her name of DARLING BABY I thoroughly detest.
-
- You see when I am playing with boys in the street,
- And pitching ball or doing some extraordinary feat,
- It makes me feel so little to hear my mother call,
- "Watch out my darling BABY, be careful lest you fall!"
-
- I'm not a darling baby, nor little baby dear,
- I'm quite a great big boy and have no baby fear,
- But I can't stand the guying the boys give to me,
- When mother starts to calling that hateful name--"BABEE."
-
-
-
-
- Koppa After Pi
-
-
- I've very little Latin and very little Greek
- Stored away in my small brain, which yet is very weak,
- But one thing I'll remember, I think until I die,
- And that is that the KOPPA follows after PI.
- And mother says perhaps this solves the very reason why
- The "Kops" they follow after cooks well trained in baking pie.
-
-
-
-
- A Whingwang Sonnet Of An Easter Bonnet
-
- (Written for Cousin Marian Stoner.)
-
- [Illustration: Little girl without curl]
-
-
- Once there was a little girl,
- But she didn't have a curl,
- Though she had an Easter-bonnet
- With ostrich plumes and flowers on it,
- Since like her mother she aspired
- A la mode to be attired.
-
- But when she rose on Easter morn
- With deepest grief her heart was torn,
- For oh, alas! the rain was falling
- In torrents great; to her appalling,
- As well she knew 'twould spoil her bonnet
- With ostrich plumes and flowers on it.
-
- Her hair in papers she had worn
- The whole night through and tortures borne
- In hopes to have a curl or two
- To wear beneath her bonnet new.
- But now, alas, the horrid rain
- Would make her hair all straight again.
-
- And so with fear of straightened hair,
- Which might cause folks to laugh and stare,
- And likewise to protect her bonnet
- With ostrich plumes and flowers on it,
- She thought it best to stay away
- From Sabbath school on Easter day.
-
-
-
-
- The Giant Arithmos
-
-
-This story was told to the author by her teacher, Mrs. A. R. Hornbrook,
- of the Hornbrook Correspondence School of Mathematics, 5622
- Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
-
-
- Great Jack-the-Giant-Killer brave, he killed all giants bad,
- But one good giant's life was spared by this bold warrior lad.
- ARITHMOS was this giant great, and all bright girls and boys
- Should love the famous Giant-King far more than all their toys.
- He's very old, and very great, and also wondrous wise,
- For he can count all things on earth and even tell their size.
- He knows how many birds there are; how high each bird can fly,
- But never does he boast, or brag, or stoop to tell a lie.
- He is so tall that he can reach up to the starry sky
- And count the stars and meteors bright as swiftly they go by.
- 'Tis he alone can tell you when a great eclipse will come
- And darken the moon's lady or the old man in the sun.
- He's always so good natured and obliging to us all;
- He'll help us with our lessons hard when for his aid we call,
- And tell us just the number of ripe apples on a plate,
- How far away Chicago is, and if the train is late.
- In fact he always answers us whene'er we ask "HOW MANY?"
- And for his work and trouble never thinks to ask a penny.
- All teachers and professors couldn't teach without his aid,
- And men in every business know through him they will be paid.
- We cannot sing in perfect time, nor even play a drum,
- Divide an apple, buy a doll nor do the smallest sum,
- And even BRIDGE by ladies fair cannot at all be played
- Unless this mighty GIANT-KING will kindly lend his aid.
- So as we cannot get along without "ARITHMOS LORE,"
- We all should learn his wondrous truths and love him more and more.
-
-
-
-
- Good Weather Assured
-
- (Written for the Evansville Courier, February 3, 1909.)
-
-
- When the second of February rolls around,
- Out of his hole in the cold, dark ground
- Comes Mr. Groundhog to look at the sky
- And see if the season of summer is nigh;
- So that he in the fields may merrily run
- And eat farmers' crops 'neath the light o' the sun.
- But if his own shadow he unfortunately sees,
- In the greatest of terror he falls on his knees,
- And quickly returns to his subterra home,
- Resolving that he will not again roam
- 'Till six stormy weeks have slowly gone by
- And then once again, perhaps he will try
- To put his flat head above the cold ground,
- And take a survey of the earth all around.
- So I made up my mind that during the year
- I'd keep him at home so he couldn't appear.
- And to bring wintry weather he hadn't a chance
- For of his own shadow he caught not a glance.
-
-
-
-
- Roosevelt Complimented By Mama Lion
-
- [Illustration]
-
-
- One day last week King Teddy arose with old King Sun,
- And seeing a huge lion, he seized his trusty gun
- And made the King of Jungle-land quickly homeward run,
- While Teddy followed after and thought it lots of fun.
- King Lion reached his cavern home, trembling in great fear,
- But when Queen Lion heard his tale, she simply scratched one ear,
- Then shrugged her shoulders a la hump and to her husband said,
- "In all the best newspapers, how often have I read,
- That Teddy loves all parents who large families possess,
- And I am sure with many cubs our happy den is blessed."
-
- Then brave and proud Queen Lion she carried out each babe,
- And placed it in the doorway of her Afro-Jungle cave;
- And there she proudly waited for King Teddy to appear,
- For of his teeth and of his gun she hadn't any fear.
- The coward King of Jungle Land, he bid himself inside,
- And when he heard King Teddy's voice his bones shook in his hide;
- But soon he knew his tears were vain when Teddy laughing said,
- "As mother of fine sextets, you surely rank ahead
- Of all the lions I have met in circus tent or den,
- To meet you I'm DEE-LIGHTED, and I hope we'll meet again."
-
-
-
-
- All Dentists Go To Heaven
-
- (Written for Dr. Richard Morris, Evansville, Ind.)
-
-
- I don't like dentists, because they hurt me
- With horrid bad pinchers as sharp as can be.
- They pick at my teeth and scratch in my head
- Until I begin to wish I were dead.
- But I read in the paper (so I suppose it's so)
- That all of the dentists to Heaven will go,
- Because they are needed away up there
- To make gold crowns for the angels fair.
-
-
-
-
- The Time Of His Life
-
- (Written after seeing a cartoon by Mr. Karl Kae Knecht in the
- Evansville Courier.)
-
- [Illustration: When He Met a School of Twelve Hippopotami]
-
-
- There are many schools of learning and also schools of game,
- But the school with largest members bears KING HIPPO'S name,
- And big and little people, yes even EVANS' FLEET,
- Would think it quite unpleasant a Hippo school to meet.
-
- But Bwana Tumbo Teddy, who knows no thought of fear,
- Laughed in joyous pleasure as the SCHOOL drew near,
- And smiling at the leader, he made her stiff with fright,
- As from his parted mouthpiece his white teeth came in sight.
-
- Then Bwana seized his rifle and taking steady aim,
- He fired at Queen Hippo and made her front legs lame,
- Then shooting at her sisters, and brothers left and right,
- He scattered all the mighty beasts and drove them out of sight.
-
- All those he killed, this hunter brave, then quickly towed ashore,
- Saying, "I'M DE-LIGHTED, and I hope to meet some more
- SCHOOLS OF HIPPOPOTAMI that feel inclined for strife,
- As in this Hippo-battle I'd the time of my whole life."
-
-
-
-
- King Teddy, The Fearless
-
- The names of tropical diseases mentioned in this rhyme were given
- to the author by a young doctor who thought they could not be made
- to rhyme.
-
-
- King Teddy has much courage to fight both beasts and men
- With pistols and with broadswords and with the mighty pen.
- And now in Afric jungles he's busy fighting fleas,
- Mosquitoes, and big tigers and monstrous bumble bees;
- Huge elephants, gorillas, and awful Guinea-worms,
- Sloughing phagedaena, and sleeping sickness germs,
- Tinea imbricata, piedra and goundou,
- Malaria and the ainhum, pinta and the sprue,
- Chyluria, mycetoma, leprosy and yaws,
- Afric dysentery and maybe lions' claws,
- Bubonic plague and dengue and dreadful tropic-boils,
- Fevers black and yellow and sometimes serpents' coils,
- Tinea Madagascar, Dhobie itch, screw worms,
- Beri-beri and craw-craw and all the Afric-germs;
- With dread sun-traumatism, and abscess of the liver,
- Yet none of these great terrors can make King Teddy shiver.
-
-
-
-
- Good Bye To Teddy Bears
-
-
- Good-bye to all the Teddy Bears, both big and small!
- The "Billy Possums" are in style for one and all,
- We little girls, like older folks, are bound to keep in style,
- And so we have to change our toys most every little while.
-
- When Roosevelt or "Teddy," was ruler o'er this land,
- All stylish girls and clever boys kept bears on hand
- To play with and to walk with and to put to bed at night,
- As "Teddy Bears" were symbols of the Rooseveltian light.
-
- But when King Teddy left his throne, Taft got his seat,
- And soft brown teddies disappeared from home and street,
- While "Billy Possums" came to rule for two years or for three,
- When "BRYAN KITTENS" will be hatched and all the rage will be.
-
-
-
-
- Cats A Kissin (Catechism)
-
- (Written for Cousin Patricia Rehn.)
-
-
- Last week my cousin Patti, who isn't yet quite three,
- Went to our good Sunday School with mother and with me.
- She sat quite still and listened well to all the teacher said,
- Until I thought she stowed away much knowledge in her head.
- But when that evening Auntie asked, "What did my darling hear
- When she went to Sunday school; tell me, won't you, dear?"
- She shrugged her little shoulders and said, "Not anyfing
- Except dey said some funny words and den began to sing;
- Though 'bout de cats a kissin', well, the teacher said you should
- Teach me ev'ry evenin' and den I'd be so dood."
-
-
-
-
- Hens
-
- (Written for Aunt Mary Helena Rehn.)
-
- [Illustration: Cluck cluck no nails for me to cut.]
-
-
- What curious birds are common hens!
- They make good broth and even pens.
- They have no teeth, no hair, no nose,
- But sport a comb red as a rose.
- They have no arms or funny bones
- That causes folks to let forth groans,
- Their victuals they all swallow whole
- And use a craw for a chopping bowl.
- They have no hands, they have no wrists,
- And without hands they can't make fists,
- But for one thing they should rejoice
- And cluck aloud with cheerful voice;
- Not having hands, they have no nails,
- Which are the cause of many wails,
- For once a week we girls and boys
- Must put aside our games and toys
- And all our nice exciting tales,
- While mother trims our finger nails.
-
-
- Plate 3: [Illustration: AUTHOR AT THREE YEARS OLD]
-
-
-
-
- Please Grandpa, Croak
-
- [Illustration: Granddaddy - young Harry]
-
-
- "Grandaddy," said young Harry, "do a good turn for me,
- By croaking like a big bull frog so I can plainly see
- If Daddy told the honest truth or only cracked a joke
- Because he said I'd have some "dough" if you would only croak."
-
-
-
-
- Wee Willie's First Hair Cut
-
-
- Last Friday, for the first time, wee Willie went with me
- To the colored barber, who bowed most graciously
- And asked the little fellow how should he crop his curls,
- Close to his head, in medium length, or bobbed like little girls?
- Wee Willie answered promptly, "My hair, please, barber, crop
- Like my own dear Daddy's, wif a small round hole on top."
-
-
-
-
- Wise Replies
-
- (Written for Uncle Thomas Cresswell, London, Eng.)
-
-
- "Joan of Arc, and who was she?"
- Asked the teacher of little Leigh.
- "Wife of Noah, of course," said she,
- "Who sailed the ark upon the sea."
-
- "John's so wise he laughed at Leigh
- When she tried to answer me,
- So in the future for replies
- We'll always go to John the wise.
- Now what is lava, Johnnie, dear,
- Can it be found in places near?"
-
- "Why, certainly," said smiling John,
- "Most every day Dad puts it on,
- And covers nearly his whole face
- With lava thick in every place."
-
-
-
-
- It Takes A Cigar A Long Time To Wear Out
-
- (Written for Mr. Harry Warren, Cincinnati, Ohio.)
-
- [Illustration]
-
-
- When Harry Warren was a boy only five years old,
- He wasn't then as he is now, so very big and bold,
- But he was very much afraid of bad tobacco smoke,
- Which seems to those who know him now to be a funny joke.
-
- He had an uncle on whose knee he loved to sit each day
- And listen to exciting tales about the Pixies gay,
- But when this uncle had a light upon a long cigar,
- Then little Harry used to sit away from it as far
- As he could manage well to get upon his uncle's knee,
- Since Harry feared tobacco smoke more than a bumble bee.
-
- One day while sitting way far out upon his uncle's knee,
- He grew so very tired as he waited there to see
- The end of the long smoker which made smoke all about
- And said, "It takes that big cigar a long time to wear out."
-
-
-
-
- An Esperanto Poem Plain To All
-
- (Written for Prof Macloskie, Princeton University.)
-
-
- Hundido krias--"Bow-wow-wow!"
- Katido krias--"Meow-meow!"
- Bovido krias--"Moo-moo-moo!"
- Kolombo krias--"Coo-coo-coo!"
- Shafido krias--"Baa-baa-baa!"
- Infano krias--"Ma-ma-ma!"
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-
-
-
- Answers, Not Questions, Cause Trouble
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- This story was told to the author by Mrs. Frederick Guthrie, of
- Chicago, Ill.
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-MOTHER.
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- "Don't bother your father with questions, Ervane,
- He's tired of hearing you ask to explain
- Why fishes can't walk or ride on the land?
- How lizards and fleas can live in the sand?
- What causes the sun to set in the west
- And always to sleep in one golden nest?
- When will the time come for children to fly
- And play in the clouds with the birds in the sky?
- Such foolish, vain questions, they trouble your dad
- And sometimes I fear they make him quite sad."
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- "No, mother," replied the inquisitive lad,
- "It's the ANSWERS not QUESTIONS that trouble poor Dad."
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- The Pure Blooded Pup
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- (Written for Mrs. Anna Chase Brainard, of Buffalo, N. Y.)
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- Once there was a little pup who lived in far off Kent,
- Where he was born some years ago in kennels of Lord Dent;
- His mother was of purest blood and likewise was his Pa,
- So he arrived upon this earth without a single flaw.
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- His tail was just the proper size and so was each small ear,
- His shapely legs and nose and paws, they pleased his mother dear;
- And with her soft and scarlet tongue she kissed her baby pup
- And loved him, oh, so dearly, that she almost ate him up.
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- The keeper of the kennels when he saw this terrier pup,
- Declared, "It's just a beauty and will surely win "THE CUP"
- For being a fox terrier of very purest breed
- And now to my dear master I'll go with greatest speed
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- And tell him of this puppy who will bring our kennels fame
- And ask him what he thinks will be a truly proper name
- For the most perfect terrier that ever came to Kent;
- It seems to me he should be called for my great master "Dent."
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- The master when he heard the news that a new pup had come,
- Left off his game of playing cards and drinking pints of rum,
- And hastened to the kennels to behold the wondrous pup,
- Who at the coming dog show was to win the great prize cup.
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- The mother dog she wagged her tail, with pride she was puffed up,
- As her great master stood right near and smiled upon her pup,
- While saying, "Higgens, listen well to what I have to say,
- And care for this good mother dog and her fine pup each day.
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- I'll name him for my ancestor, the great and famous Kent,
- And in that name to the dog show next year he shall be sent,
- Where I am sure he'll win the prize above all others there
- For he is perfect in his shape and has fine silky hair."
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- So little Kent was tended well and petted every day,
- He never had to seek for bones and only had to play,
- And having nothing else to do on mischief he was bent,
- Was this aristocratic pup, owned by the great Lord Dent.
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- And when a year had passed around, one day the master came
- To take him to the London show, where he would win great fame;
- But Kent was very naughty, as he did not wish to go
- Away from his good kennel home to any prize dog show.
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- At last his master whipped Pup Kent and oh, but he did swear
- Because Kent snapped at Higgens, who was combing his fine hair
- And putting on a collar with a chain of golden beads;
- Such ornaments Kent could not see that any puppy needs.
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- At last the royal pup was dressed in pupdom regal style,
- And drove in a fine carriage, oh, for many a weary mile,
- Until he came to London town, where nothing he could see,
- Because all things were bidden with a fog as thick as could be.
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- Before he'd even time to think, this 'ristocratic pup,
- He found himself in a small cage with all the doors shut up,
- And many men were standing round and gazing long at him,
- While passing comments on his shape of head, and tail, and limb.
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- Kent glared at them in silence and he would not wag his tail,
- In fact just like a good young boy who might be put in jail
- When he had never done a thing to break the country's law,
- So felt this little terrier, this pup without a flaw.
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- And when the judges thought that he should have the ribbon blue
- Because of his most perfect blood shown by the records true,
- He snapped and barked and even bit at those who came quite near
- To tie the lovely ribbon on the neck of "PUPPY DEAR."
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- So they decided that despite his wondrous pedigree
- There yet was something in his blood that ought not there to be
- And gave the prize, a silver cup, to a more common dog,
- Who lay so still and quiet that he might have been a log.
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- But when that evening our Lord Dent beheld with great surprise
- That a less blooded terrier had won the noble prize,
- He felt so very angry that he wished to beat Pup Kent,
- And ordered that the beastly dog should quickly home be sent.
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- But while poor Kent was going home so sad and in disgrace,
- He got away from Higgens and he found another place
- Far, far away from kennels of the great and wealthy Dent,
- Near to a peaceful village, the runaway he went.
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- Here he lay down so tired and thought of many a bone,
- Which now was being gnawed each day by his good ma alone,
- Since Dent, her darling puppy boy, was oh, so far away,
- Oh, how he wished to gnaw a bone with his good ma this day!
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- But as he lay a dreaming of lovely things to eat,
- Quite suddenly a large gray rat ran right across his feet,
- And after it there followed an Irishman named Pat,
- Who sought to make a timely end of bad old Mister Rat.
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- Big Pat was armed with a huge club and called to his old dog,
- "Now, come along ye lazy baste, before he's in the bog!"
- Then Kent he jumped and in one bound he seized poor Mister Rat,
- Shook him about 'till he was dead and then brought him to Pat.
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- Big Pat he gazed in wonder at the clever little dog,
- And sitting down upon a large and green moss covered log,
- Said, "Shure, ye bate this lazy hound that kennot catch a rat,
- And if ye'll stay right here, me boy, I'll trate ye well," says Pat.
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- Then proudly Kent he wagged his tail and tried so hard to smile
- Upon the good old Irishman, who patted him awhile,
- Then coaxed the stranger after him right through a broad green lane,
- Which led to the fine country home of good Sir Michael Kane.
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- And here Pat introduced the pup to all the family,
- And they were all so very kind as any folks could be,
- They patted his soft silky hair and praised him to the sky,
- And gave him a big gravy dish all filled with nice meat pie,
- And likewise a huge saucer, which was full of real sweet cream,
- Which made the hungry doggie think that he was in a dream.
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- So here Dog Kent decided was the best place for to dwell,
- And here he still is living and is feeling very well.
- He goes each morning to the barn and helps his good friend Pat
- To catch the naughty rodents, who are called the name of RAT.
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- The cook she feeds him daily, and he captures all the mice,
- Which love to haunt the kitchen of the cleanly Bridget Bryce.
- While little Mikey loves dear Kent far more than all his toys,
- And says he'd rather play with him than any girls or boys,
- Because he never minds a bit to jump right in the pond
- And bring to land a stick or stone or weeping willow wand.
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- He always acts politely to all who may come near,
- And so all strangers pet him and think he is a dear.
- They like his soft and silky hair, which proves he has good blood,
- And never does he make folks mad by tracking floors with mud.
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- He's wiser than most common dogs, whose hair is rough and coarse,
- His bark is always pleasant, and 'tis never loud nor hoarse;
- He's swifter also than slow dogs who cannot catch a rat,
- Because they always eat too much and get so very fat.
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- MORAL.
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- This story proves that good, pure blood is a fine thing to own,
- But it can't help the puppies or the children all alone,
- Unless these youthful puppies and the children, very small,
- Learn to keep quite busy and to have a smile for all.
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- Too ticklish to Count His Ribs
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- (Written for Richard Montgomery, Erie, Pa.)
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- [Illustration: Psychology teacher asked Dickie Gray.]
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- In the class of physiology the teacher asked one day,
- How many ribs have you, my boy, tell me, Dickie Gray?
- And wiggling, giggling Dickie very promptly made reply,
- "Dear teacher, I must tell the truth, for I could never lie,
- But as for ribs I cannot say how many I possess,
- For I'm too awful ticklish to count them, I confess."
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- The Young Mail Carrier
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- (Written for Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Wocher, Indianapolis, Ind.)
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- [Illustration: Billy and his Mother]
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- Young Billy from his lovely home disappeared one day,
- And when his mother missed her lad she thought he'd run away,
- But soon the sprightly little chap came quickly running back,
- Bearing on his shoulders small, a large round leather sack,
- And said, "Dear mother, I have been a very good, kind boy,
- Trying like the Bible says, to bring our neighbors joy.
- I played I was a postman and I paid each one a call,
- And to the people in this block, I gave them letters, all."
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- MOTHER: "But where, my precious little lad, my darling, honey pet,
- Where in the name of goodness these letters did you get?"
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- BILLY: "I found them with no trouble; they were the ones that you
- Kept in your top bureau drawer, all tied with ribbons blue."
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- On Thanksgiving
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- Before you eat good turkey, rich mince and pumpkin pies
- On that great feast or feast days when "tum-tums" grow in size,
- The good old day THANKSGIVING, the best day in the year,
- When all should be so thankful around the board of cheer,
- Then don't forget the poor ones, the hungry, cold and sad,
- Go fill their empty tables and make the whole world glad.
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- Living Valentines Presented By Cupid
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-Written February, 1909, for an entertainment at St. Paul's Episcopal
- Sunday School, Evansville, Ind.
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- CUPID: "I'm glad to see you all to-night,
- And it will give my heart delight
- Some lovely valentines to show
- And make you wish you had a beau." (SHOWS BOW.)
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- FIRST PICTURE--A SUNBONNET BABY.
- CUPID: "Here's a little baby fair,
- But you can't see her face or hair."
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- BABY: "I'm some one who loves you (POINTING AT AUDIENCE).
- Can't you guess who?"
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- SECOND PICTURE--BOY WEARING A LARGE HAT AND WITH
- BACK TURNED TO THE AUDIENCE.
- CUPID: "Here's another, called 'GUESS WHO,'
- Come to say, 'How do you do.'"
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- BOY: "I'm for my own dear valentine.
- Guess me and I'll be thine."
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- THIRD PICTURE--HEART'S DELIGHT.
- CUPID: "This is Heart's Delight,
- Look at her face, so beaming bright."
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- HEART'S DELIGHT: "If you love me, oh, my dear,
- This is how I will appear." (SMILES AND SINGS A SONG.)
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- FOURTH PICTURE--HEART'S SORROW.
- CUPID: "Watch this poor aching heart of sorrow,
- He'll cry all day and perhaps to-morrow.
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- HEART'S SORROW: "If you do not love me, dear,
- This is how I will appear."
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- FIFTH PICTURE--TWO JAPS.
- CUPID: "Allow me the pleasure to show to thee
- A very sweet picture from over the sea."
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- THE JAPS HOLD FANS IN FRONT OF FACES AND SING:
- "Jap a ling a ling, Jap aling a lee,
- You're my Jappie baby,
- If you lovee me as I lovee you
- No knife can cut our love in two."
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- CUPID: "I'll tell you what they said,
- I'm sure they mean to wed.
- Cho, cho, cho, cho, nano hagi tomare
- Nano haga eyay nawraw teni tomare.
- Dai dai mushi, dai dai mushi
- Tsuno chitto dashare
- Ame kaze foku kara tsuno chitto dashare."
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- SIXTH PICTURE--FRENCH VALENTINE.
- CUPID: "Now I'll show you a lady from far away France
- Who says, 'Parlez-vous' and knows how to dance."
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- FRENCH VALENTINE: "Je vous aime, je vous adore
- Que voulez-vous de plus encore?"
- FRENCH VALENTINE DANCES.
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- SEVENTH PICTURE--GERMAN VALENTINE.
- CUPID: "This is a lady who wants a beau,
- In her own language she'll tell you so."
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- GERMAN VALENTINE: "Ich liebe dich, lieben sie mich?"
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- EIGHTH PICTURE--COMIC VALENTINE.
- CUPID: "This a comic, to make you smile,
- And keep you good humored a little while."
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- COMIC, HOLDING A LARGE GRAVY SPOON IN ONE HAND, YELLOW
- MOON IN OTHER.
- "Of all earthly joys, I love best to spoon
- With thee, oh, my darling, 'neath the light o' the moon."
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- NINTH PICTURE--ANOTHER COMIC.
- CUPID: "Another comic will now appear,
- I hope that you his plea will hear."
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- BOY DRESSED IN RIDICULOUS COSTUME, KNEELING AND
- HOLDING A CARDBOARD HEART:
- BOY: "My heart is thine, my soul is thine,
- Won't you be my valentine?"
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- TENTH PICTURE--THE OLD-FASHIONED VALENTINE.
- CUPID: "The pleasure now, dear friends, is mine,
- To show you one more valentine.
- This is my dear sweet valentine,
- Sent to us from 'Ye olden time.'"
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- GIRL DRESSED IN OLD-FASHIONED COSTUME:
- "I am an old-fashioned dame,
- But I love you just the same."
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- CUPID: "And I am an Esperanto valentine,
- For me dear friends, you all should pine.
- Karulin' mi amas vin,
- Chu vi amas, amas min?
- Kaj nun mi deziras vin
- Estu mia valentin'!"
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- Plate 4: [Illustration: AUTHOR AT FOUR YEARS OLD]
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- [Illustration: decorative mark]
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- Universal Peace
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- (Written for Mr. Charles Randall, Seattle, Washington, (Mia Onklo
- Karlo.)
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- [Illustration: +No EATA You--No. Me Know+ ESPERANTO+
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- +Knecht+]
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- Not long ago, Sir Wu Ting Fang,
- A song of peace most sweetly sang,
- Suggesting that the Pension Millions,
- Given yearly will be billions
- Unless all wars be made to cease
- By a Tribunal ruled by "PEACE."
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- But good Sir Fang he did not go
- Far off to Hague or else he'd know
- That Peace Tribunals bring not "PEACE,"
- Nor cause all bloody wars to cease;
- As every man from each strange land
- All other men can't understand
- E'en when the learned GO-BETWEEN
- Tries to explain and makes a scene.
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- Of mighty sword and mightier pen
- Poets have sung time and again,
- But they forgot in songs they sung
- To praise the power of a COMMON TONGUE,
- And ne'er will banners of PEACE be unfurled
- 'Till ESPERANTO rules over the world.
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- All The World Cries
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- (Written for Katherine Wellman, Evansville, Ind.)
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- [Illustration: CRYING ANIMALS AND PETS]
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- "Quack-quack-quack-quack!" cries Auntie Duck,
- While Mother Hen goes "Cluck-cluck-cluck!"
- And Papa Dog cries, "Bowwow-wow,"
- And Sister Cat, "Me-ow, me-ow!"
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- "Eek-eek- eek- eek!" squeals Grandma Pig,
- I'm growing, oh, so fat and big;"
- While "Cackle-cackle" all the day,
- The little goslings like to say.
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- Proud Grandpa Turkey struts along
- With his eternal gobble-song:
- Sir Horse he whinnies, "Hee-hee-hee!"
- And "buzzey-buzzey" goes Miss Bee.
- Sis Maud, the Mule, cries "Hee-hee-haw!"
- And Missy Crow goes "Caw-caw-caw!"
- Good Madam Cow cries, "Moo-moo-moo!"
- And gentle Doves they "Coo-coo-coo!"
- The Baby Lambs cry, "Baa-baa-baa!"
- And little Kids squeal, "Ma-ma-ma!"
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- Could Only Ask Questions
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- (Written for Miss Edna Speck, Evansville, Ind.)
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- "Madelaine," asked her mother, when home she came at noon,
- "How did you like your teacher, or can't you tell so soon?"
- MADELAINE.
- "Oh, yes, I formed my 'pinion long 'fore I started home,
- She's rather pleasant, looks quite wise, and wears a lovely comb,
- But surely she is stupid in spite of her wise looks,
- 'Cause she only asked us questions from out a lot of books.
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- Let The Bumble Be
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- (Written for Cousin Virginia Rehn.)
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- [Illustration: STUNG...+Knecht+]
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- One day I saw a bumble bee bumbling on a rose,
- And as I stood admiring him he stung me on the nose.
- My nose in pain, it swelled so large it looked like a potato,
- So Daddy said, though Mother thought 'twas more like a tomato.
- And now dear children this advice I hope you'll take from me,
- And when you see a bumble bee just let that bumble be.
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- Take That Gum From Your Mouth And Put Your Feet In
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- (Written for Cousin Pauline Sackville.)
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- [Illustration]
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- Young Susie was quite noted for having great large feet,
- And for working both her jaws, this maid could not be beat.
- Her wad of gum she always bore with her unto the school,
- Though well she knew she might be spanked, for 'twas against the rule,
- But skillfully she hid this gum, did naughty little Sue,
- Though oft' behind her little book she took a little chew,
- But once when she was building up a castle in the air,
- And thought she was a lady rich and most entrancing fair,
- While stretching out her legs and feet into the narrow aisle
- And thinking of sweet Bobby Jones, the maid began to smile.
- Then suddenly the teacher cried, above the school room's din,
- "Take that gum from out your mouth and put your feet right in."
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- The Tersest Bathing Suit
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- This story was told to the author by Mr. Marshall White,
- Evansville, Ind.
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- When to the seashore Robert went, with Ma and Sister Nell,
- He met a wise professor, who soon taught him to spell,
- Likewise to read of fairy lore and use a real steel pen
- To write to his own father dear, who like most all the men
- Must ever stay at home and work to earn the cents to pay
- For wife and children's outing 'till the summer slips away.
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- Now all the strange, uncommon words which little Bob could find,
- He stored away and tried to keep in his small, active mind
- So as to use in writing notes to his dear fat old Dad,
- And when the big folks used strange words it made him very glad.
- So one day when of something TERSE he heard his sister tell,
- He asked her for its meaning and he thus rewarded Nell
- By writing to his father, dear, "Oh, Daddy, you should see
- Nell's awful TERSEST bathing suit, which won't reach to her knee."
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- Furs Lined With Kittens
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- (Written for Adaline Sherman, Wheeling. W. Va.)
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- [Illustration]
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- Said a rich little girl, who was boasting one day,
- "I'ze too many furs, so I throws dem away,"
- But her poor little friend, who fine furs had none,
- In braggadocia could not be outdone,
- And proudly she showed her little fur mittens
- And said, "I'ze sum odders, do deys lined wid kittens."
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- A Boy's Description Of A Goat
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- (Written for Cousin James Diller.)
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- When the teacher asked young Leo to write a little rhyme
- Describing some strange animal he'd seen at any time,
- He seized his long slate pencil and this is what he wrote
- About the common animal, which children call a goat:
- A goat is stronger than a pig,
- But often it is not as big.
- It has four legs just like a horse,
- But never runs on a race-course.
- It gives good milk, though not as much
- As cows and elephants and such,
- But more than any bull or ox,
- Rooster, ram, or sly old fox.
- Like any mule a goat likes hay
- And all tin cans we throw away.
- He's useful and I'm fond of him,
- But some good folks have a strange whim
- To hold their noses when he's near,
- And act as if they greatly fear
- To touch his fur which has the smell
- Of something I know very well.
- The odor I'd know anywhere,
- It's like Dad's tonic for his hair.
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- A Riddle
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- (Written for Miss Mame Leo, Erie, Pa.)
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- [Illustration]
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- One night 'neath the light of a silvery moon
- There sat on a log pile a very fat coon
- And also a little most cunning brown fellow
- Eating of melon so juicy and mellow.
- The large robust coon and the wee little one
- Thought they were having a bushel of fun,
- And laughed very loudly in notes of pure glee,
- For they were as happy as happy could be.
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- So here is a riddle I'll give now to you,
- Guess the relations there was 'twixt the two.
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-ANSWER.
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- Most everyone answers, "Why, father and son."
- Not so--'twas a Mammy and her little one.
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- Grandpa's Head Cums Frew His Hair
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- (Written for Margaret Ruston, Evansville, Ind., and Mr. Wm. Warren
- Newburg, Ind.)
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- When Margaret was a youngster scarcely two years old,
- At climbing chairs and tables this lass was very bold,
- And one day when her grandpa was seated in his chair
- She climbed upon the rounded rungs as if they were a stair,
- And looking at her Grandpa's head, which fast was growing bald,
- She cried out, "Dearest Grandpa, one time you must hab failed,"
- Or maybe you've been naughty and dot an awful scare,
- Which taused de top ob yu's round head to tum right frew de hair.
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- Susan Rewarded For Twenty Year's Service
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- (Written for Dr. and Mrs. W. Baker, Terre Haute, Ind.)
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- [Illustration]
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- Professor Theophilus Socrates Snook,
- One day paid a visit to Susan, his cook,
- And beaming upon her with kindliest look
- Said, "Susan, my dear, please gaze at tins book.
- In here you may learn of elephantiasis,
- And also the hookworm, uncinariasis;
- Of craw-craw and chiggers, of ainhum and sprue,
- And all that I've written about them is true.
- Now, Susan, to me you've been faithful, my dear,
- In keeping my house for many a year;
- For years nearly twenty you've been now with me,
- Cooking my victuals just as they should be,
- And truly I think a reward I should pay
- To one who has labored from day unto day.
- So when I discovered a wondrous new germ,
- Which causes young children to wiggle and squirm,
- I thought that this bug for you I would name
- And bring you great glory and honor and fame.
- It's a wondrous discovery, this ungomariasis,
- And so we will call it the SUSANBONPIASIS."
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- "No, thank you, your honor," said Susan Bawben,
- "I had the bugs once and don't want 'em again,
- And if you onsist upon callin' me BUGS,
- I'll lave you alone wid your books and your drugs."
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- Plate 5: [Illustration: AUTHOR AT FIVE YEARS OLD]
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- Bridget Makes Split Pea Soup
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- (Written for Lieutenant and Mrs. Arthur Crenshaw, U. S. N.)
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- [Illustration: K.K.]
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- "Bridget," asked the mistress, "whatever is the matter,
- Nothing ready for our Lunch excepting pancake batter?
- Why, I invited guests to come for lunch at half past one
- And they've been waiting all this time and yet there's nothing done."
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- "Well, mum," replied Miss Bridget, "the fault is all your own,
- For split pea soup you ordered and workin' here alone,
- It's took me most two hours while tryin' just to split
- Three hundred of these blarsted peas, which give me most a fit,
- And as there's still three hundred, 'twill take two hours more
- To split the pesky little things, shure as me name's MAHORE!"
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- Lazy White Men Sit While Flying Through The Air
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- [Illustration: KNECHT]
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- Poor Lo, the Indian, disrespects his brothers wise and fair,
- Who now on aeroplanes are wont to make trips through the air.
- He watches them go circling like birds up in the skies,
- Then grunts, "Heap lazy white man, he sits down when he flies."
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- To Save Him From A Whipping
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- (Written for Howard Roosa, Evansville, Ind.)
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- [Illustration: K.]
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- When Mrs. Hall, who had spent the day
- With Mrs. Greene, was going away,
- Wee curly headed naughty Joe
- Begged so hard that she wouldn't go.
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- Now all the day this roguish lad
- Had disobeyed and been quite bad,
- So Mrs. Hall, in great surprise,
- Paused and looked in his brown eyes,
- While saying, "I'm so glad to know
- You love me truly, dearest Joe."
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- "Oh, 'tisent that," said honest Joe,
- "I wouldn't mind for you to go
- Except my mother said to-day,
- She'd whip me when you went away."
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- A Skillet In Society (Alias A Chafing Dish)
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- (Written for Mrs. Katherine Brown, Indianapolis, Ind.)
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- [Illustration: KNECHT]
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- I heard my mother, just to-day, asking dear old dad,
- To buy her a nice chafing-dish and make her very glad;
- Though he declared its cooking was a waste of alcohol,
- Causing indigestion and perhaps a doctor's call.
- I inner saw a chafing-dish and so I longed to know
- How it looked and what 'twas for and so and so and so;
- But mother would not answer and daddy went away,
- So I sought the kitchen, where Bridget holds her sway,
- And asked her if she ever saw, since she began to cook,
- A chafing-dish on pantry shelf or pictured in a book?
- Then Bridget turned her pug nose up with a "contempshus" air,
- And gave a twist to her small knot of brick dust colored hair,
- And said, "A chafing-dish, my dear, so says Miss B. Moriety,
- Is but a common skillet pan that's got in High Society."
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- Autos Change Good Luck
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- (Written for Uncle Cicero Stoner.)
-
- [Illustration: KNECHT]
-
-
- Poor Uncle Zeke, he's very sad, and says the whole world's wrong,
- For when he was a little boy it was a common song,
- To sing about the luck which came from finding a horse shoe,
- And in those good old lucky days the sign was always true.
-
- But Sunday when poor Uncle Zeke was walking on the street,
- He saw a lucky horseshoe which was lying at his feet,
- And as he stooped to seize the prize which lay before him there,
- Along an automobile came and whizzed him in the air.
-
- To-day I saw him lying still and pale upon his couch,
- And oh, my goodness gracious, but he had an awful grouch!
- His hands and arms in bandages were tied securely up,
- And on his forehead was a bump like Aunt Mariah's cup.
-
- He told me I should listen well and take his counsel sage,
- And never try to get good luck in this fierce auto age,
- By picking up a horse's shoe in street or country road
- No more than I would stoop to seize a common green back toad.
-
-
-
-
- A Boy Who Was Hero And villian
-
- (Written for Uncle Ernest, Sackville.)
-
- [Illustration: KNECHT]
-
-
- One day in a big meeting held by a MERCY-BAND,
- The leader asked each little boy to hold up his right hand
- If he could tell of any deed of kindness he had done
- In saving some poor animal or helping any one.
- Then Ernest held his hand on high and pride suffused his face,
- As from his seat he quickly rose and took the speaker's place,
- While speaking loud in accents clear, "I saved a little pup
- Who had his tail in a tin can all tied securely up.
- I took the can from off his tail and made him bark with joy,
- So mother said and so said dad--I was a darling boy."
-
- "And so say I," the leader said, while calling him her "DEAR,"
- "But how I wish the wicked boy who did the deed was here."
- ERNEST.
- "Well, here he is, for I'm the boy who did that deed as well,
- So I could take the tin can off and of my goodness tell."
-
-
-
-
- Wise Ignatius Escapes A Whipping
-
- (Written for Edgar and Melville Garvin, Evansville, Ind.)
-
- [Illustration: KNECHT]
-
-
- "Father," said learned Ignatius, as the strap was preparing to fall
- Down on his trouserless bare-skin, "I don't mind a whipping at all,
- But are you quite certain, dear father, the strap has been well
- sterilized
- For virulent germs in old leather are often concealed and disguised;
- And surely by violent impact with textile and soft porous skin,
- But lately exposed to the street's dust there's danger of entering in
- Upon my most delicate system, and then comes the big doctor's fee,
- So dear father show you're a wise man and touch not that strap upon
- me."
-
- While the learned youth plead, lo! his father upon that dread strap
- loosed his hold,
- And thus he escaped from a whipping, Ignatius, the wise and the bold.
-
-
-
-
- Nervous Jelly
-
- (Written for Charles Donnelly, Evansville, Ind.)
-
- [Illustration: KNECHT]
-
-
- One day when there was company, wee greedy Lillie May,
- Took the jelly nearly all when it was passed her way;
- And in great haste she ate it up with her small silver spoon,
- But oh, alas, the Piggiewig! she was discovered soon
- By mother, who was greatly shocked to see her naughty elf
- Eating like a greedy boy from off the kitchen shelf.
- But mother couldn't scold aloud for fear the guest would hear,
- And so she softly whispered, "Don't eat that way, my dear."
- Then Mrs. Dean, the company, she patted Lillie's head,
- And smiling at the jellied face, she to the culprit said,
- "I've always liked the jelly good which makes my bread so sweet,
- And surely it tastes better still when with a spoon we eat
- This lovely, wobbling dainty, which is loved by one and all,
- From little girls and tiny boys to great men, large and tall."
- This speech encouraged Lillie May, who nodded her wise head
- And said, "Besides dis jelly is too nervous for to spread."
-
-
-
-
- One Johnson More, One Smith Less
-
- (Written for Salibelle Royster, Smith's Mills, Kentucky.)
-
- [Illustration]
-
-
- When Zekiel Rastus Johnson had the courage to propose
- To lovely Miss Amanda Smith, she turned up her flat nose
- And said, "Now Rastus Johnson, how dare you ask of me"
- To change my 'ristocratic name and Mrs. Johnson be,
- When now in the directory, the Johnsons are ahead
- Of our most noted family, so 'course I would not wed
- With you to make one Johnson more to swell the Johnson line,
- While Smiths in number take back seats where they can never shine.
-
-
- Plate 6: [Illustration: AUTHOR AT SIX YEARS OLD]
-
-
-
-
- Pride
-
- (Written for St. Nicholas, June, 1909.)
-
- [Illustration: KNECHT]
-
-
- The Bible says that pride's the cause of people falling down,
- And an example of this truth I once saw in our town,
- When we were driving on the street and watching passers-by,
- From out a store stepped a fine dude, all dressed in silk hat high,
- And pants so tight he could not take a single manly stride,
- His moustache curled and round his neck a ribbon pink and wide,
- While in his hand a gold head cane, which he twirled round and round,
- So that the people all would know a great man was in town;
- But being filled with pride of self he did not know his heel
- Had come in contact with a part of a banana peel
- Until it felled him to the earth and smashed his silk hat's crown
- And even then he did not know 'twas PRIDE that knocked him down.
-
-
-
-
- Job Smarter Than Modern Babies
-
- [Illustration: K]
-
-
- "Mother," said Lida, "why can't brother speak,
- Is he so stupid or only just weak,
- Like poor ancient Grandma, when she has a cold,
- And loses her voice so she can't even scold?"
-
- "No, darling," said mother, "your brother can't talk,
- Eat sugar candy, nor even yet walk,
- As he is a baby the size of your doll,
- And babies can't talk when they are so small."
-
- "Then, mother," said Lida, "the kids nowadays
- Are not half so smart in all of their ways
- As babies who lived in the long, long ago,
- For dear teacher told me (so 'course it is so,)
- That Job in the Bible cursed the day he was born,
- I 'spose like big Tom, when he can't play his horn."
-
-
-
-
- Only Naughty Children See "Spooks" On Hallow'een
-
- (Written for Aunt Winifred Broad,
- Stockleigh Pomeroy, England.)
-
- [Illustration: decorative border KNECHT]
-
-
- Witches and goblins, spooks and elves,
- With sprites and gnomes from elf-land delves,
- To-night are flying here and there,
- Yes, up and down and everywhere.
- For this one night in all the year,
- They rule the earth and bring great fear
- To all the naughty little boys
- Who tease good girls and break their toys.
-
- These spooks they also make girls sad
- When they are selfish, cross and bad;
- So when it's dark, bad boys and maids
- They see these awful fearsome shades,
- And that is why with covered heads,
- They trembling lie in their warm beds.
-
- But even there, they goblins see,
- Spooks, and gnomes and all that be
- Abroad upon weird Hallow'een,
- When all the wizards may be seen
- By naughty kids and grown up folks,
- Who like to play most wicked jokes.
-
- But good young girls and gentle boys,
- The kids who are their mothers' joys,
- They like the dark just as the light,
- For spooks ne'er come within their sight,
- And in their dreams the lovely elves
- Show them bright scenes from fairy delves.
-
- So, if to-night you are afraid
- Of any spook or any shade,
- We'll know you are a naughty child,
- So cross and willful, rude and wild.
-
-
-
-
- Six Year Old Girl Writes Poem Hoping To Save Forest Trees
-
- (From "The Woman's National Daily.")
-
-
-The following rhyme was written by a little 6-year-old-girl in hopes
-to save a beautiful forest near Evansville, Ind., and to help the
-Children's Outing Farm. A short account of the little girl's work
-as an Esperantist appeared in a recent issue of The National Daily
-and a number of articles concerning her abilities as a linguist have
-appeared in other publications.
-
-She is the youngest child in the world holding a diploma from Dr.
-Zamenhof for being able to read, write and speak in Esperanto, and
-she also speaks French as well as English.
-
-This little girl, who was born in Norfolk, Va., has been a lover of
-books since her babyhood days. She knew Mother Goose by heart when
-but 1 year of age and learned to read when but 2. At 4 she read
-Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare and had finished the fifth reader. A few
-months ago she was sent to school, but could not be graded, as she
-could read, write and spell anything, but knew nothing of arithmetic.
-The noted mathematician, Mrs. Hornbrook, of Chicago, having met the
-little girl at Chautauqua, N. Y., and knowing of her mental powers,
-asked to instruct her in this branch, and she soon taught her the
-rudiments of arithmetic.
-
-She is the daughter of Dr. J. B. Stoner, Surgeon in the Public Health
-and Marine Hospital Service, and Winifred Sackville Stoner, President
-of the Woman's Esperanto League.
-
-
-
-
- An Appeal To The Fairies
-
-
- Good Fairies, save the lovely trees which live on Coal Mine Hill!
- Their home has been your home so long, your hearts with grief would
- fill
- Should stout men armed with axes come and fell them to the earth,
- These monarchs of the forest, these jewels of great worth.
- The giant oaks and stately elms, the rulers of this wood,
- Have watched the growth of Evansville and helped it as they could.
- They gave their shade and soft bright leaves to make a downy nest
- To shelter the first baby boy that Evansville possessed.
- Before this city had a church in which both bad and good
- Could ask forgiveness of the Lord, they worshipped in this wood;
- And those who love the beautiful and lovely scenes to see,
- They climb upon this grassy hill and stand beneath some tree,
- While gazing far as eye can reach to fair Kentucky's lands,
- Or looking at the river shore on which our city stands.
- Above their heads the bright blue sky, green grass beneath their feet,
- And all around a lovely scene such as we seldom meet;
- Green pastures with cows grazing, broad river flowing by,
- And many tall church spires lifted toward the sky.
- No fitter place for children nor grown-up folks could be
- Than on this lovely Coal Mine Hill where Nature we may see.
- 'Tis here the little orphans and poor children all around
- Find the greatest pleasures which in this woods abound.
- So, dearest, kindest Fairies, please rescue these grand trees,
- And save them for the children--we ask you on our knees.
-
- THE END
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-<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Jingles</p>
-<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr.</p>
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-<tr><td class="tdl">Chapter</td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr">Page</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Christmas_Wish_For_All_My_Friends">A Christmas Wish For All My Friends</a>
-</td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_6">&nbsp;6</a></td></tr>
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-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#PREFACE">PREFACE</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_7">&nbsp;7</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#plate_1"><i>AUTHOR AT ONE YEAR OLD</i></a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#plate_1"><i>Plate 1</i></a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#The_Pets_Christmas_Carol">The Pet's Christmas Carol</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_9">&nbsp;9</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Great_Surprise">A Great Surprise</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_9">&nbsp;9</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Santas_Reindeer_In_The_Sky">Santa's Reindeer In The Sky</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Nissen_The_Santa_Claus_of_Norway">Nissen, The Santa Claus of Norway</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#After_The_Fourth_Was_Over">After The Fourth Was Over</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Kitten_Gone_To_Waste">A Kitten Gone To Waste</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#The_New_Baby">The New Baby</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Woes_Caused_By_Whooping_Bugs">Woes Caused By Whooping Bugs</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#How_Simple_Simon_Became_Wise">How Simple Simon Became Wise</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#plate_2"><i>AUTHOR AT TWO YEARS OLD</i></a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#plate_2"><i>Plate 2</i></a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Too_Many_Dolls">Too Many Dolls</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#The_Cat_Extincted_The_Canary">The Cat Extincted The Canary</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Boys_Complaint">A Boy's Complaint</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Koppa_After_Pi">Koppa After Pi</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Whingwang_Sonnet_Of_An_Easter_Bonnet">A Whingwang Sonnet Of An Easter Bonnet</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#The_Giant_Arithmos">The Giant Arithmos</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Good_Weather_Assured">Good Weather Assured</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Roosevelt_Complimented_By_Mama_Lion">Roosevelt Complimented By Mama Lion</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#All_Dentists_Go_To_Heaven">All Dentists Go To Heaven</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#The_Time_Of_His_Life">The Time Of His Life</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#King_Teddy_The_Fearless">King Teddy, The Fearless</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Good_Bye_To_Teddy_Bears">Good Bye To Teddy Bears</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Cats_A_Kissin_Catechism">Cats A Kissin (Catechism)</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Hens">Hens</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#plate_3"><i>AUTHOR AT THREE YEAR OLD</i></a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#plate_3"><i>Plate 3</i></a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Please_Grandpa_Croak">Please Grandpa, Croak</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Wee_Willies_First_Hair_Cut">Wee Willie's First Hair Cut</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Wise_Replies">Wise Replies</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#It_Takes_A_Cigar_A_Long_Time_To_Wear_Out">It Takes A Cigar A Long Time To Wear Out</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#An_Esperanto_Poem_Plain_To_All">An Esperanto Poem Plain To All</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Answers_Not_Questions_Cause_Trouble">Answers, Not Questions, Cause Trouble</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#The_Pure_Blooded_Pup">The Pure Blooded Pup</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Too_ticklish_to_Count_His_Ribs">Too ticklish to Count His Ribs</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#The_Young_Mail_Carrier">The Young Mail Carrier</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#On_Thanksgiving">On Thanksgiving</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Living_Valentines_Presented_By_Cupid">Living Valentines Presented By Cupid</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#plate_4"><i>AUTHOR AT FOUR YEARS OLD</i></a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#plate_4"><i>Plate 4</i></a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Universal_Peace">Universal Peace</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#All_The_World_Cries">All The World Cries</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Could_Only_Ask_Questions">Could Only Ask Questions</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Let_The_Bumble_Be">Let The Bumble Be</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Take_That_Gum_From_Your_Mouth_And_Put_Your_Feet_In">Take That Gum From Your Mouth And Put Your Feet In</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#The_Tersest_Bathing_Suit">The Tersest Bathing Suit</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Furs_Lined_With_Kittens">Furs Lined With Kittens</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Boys_Description_Of_A_Goat">A Boy's Description Of A Goat</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Riddle">A Riddle</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Grandpas_Head_Cums_Frew_His_Hair">Grandpa's Head Cums Frew His Hair</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Susan_Rewarded_For_Twenty_Years_Service">Susan Rewarded For Twenty Year's Service</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#plate_5"><i>AUTHOR AT FIVE YEARS OLD</i></a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#plate_5"><i>Plate 5</i></a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Bridget_Makes_Split_Pea_Soup">Bridget Makes Split Pea Soup</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Lazy_White_Men_Sit_While_Flying_Through_The_Air">Lazy White Men Sit While Flying Through The Air</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#To_Save_Him_From_A_Whipping">To Save Him From A Whipping</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Skillet_In_Society_Alias_A_Chafing_Dish">A Skillet In Society (Alias A Chafing Dish)</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Autos_Change_Good_Luck">Autos Change Good Luck</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Boy_Who_Was_Hero_And_villian">A Boy Who Was Hero And villian</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Wise_Ignatius_Escapes_A_Whipping">Wise Ignatius Escapes A Whipping</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Nervous_Jelly">Nervous Jelly</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#One_Johnson_More_One_Smith_Less">One Johnson More, One Smith Less</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#plate_6"><i>AUTHOR AT SIX YEARS OLD</i></a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#plate_6"><i>Plate 6</i></a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Pride">Pride</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Job_Smarter_Than_Modern_Babies">Job Smarter Than Modern Babies</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Only_Naughty_Children_See_Spooks">Only Naughty Children See "Spooks" On Hallow'een</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#Six_Year_Old_Girl_Writes_Poem_Hoping_To_Save_Forest_Trees">Six Year Old Girl Writes Poem Hoping To Save Forest Trees</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdl"><a href="#An_Appeal_To_The_Fairies">An Appeal To The Fairies</a></td><td class="tdc"></td><td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr>
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-<h1>JINGLES</h1>
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-<p class="small center">(When five and six years of age)</p>
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-<p class="split-para medium left">Copyright 1909<span class="two medium right">Smith &amp; Butterfield, <br />Publishers</span></p>
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-
-<p class="caption center">[<i>Best Wishes to my little friend, Miss Winifred S. Stoner Jr.,
-whose delightful Jingles I like to illustrate--K. K. Knecht</i>]</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[5]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp62" id="image005" style="max-width: 31.25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image005.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<p class="caption cb large">THE AUTHOR</p>
-<p>The author of these little rhymes, which have been previously published
-in "The Evansville Courier" and several other publications, was
-born in Norfolk, Virginia, August 19, 1902. From her babyhood days
-she has been a great lover of poetry and began composing original rhymes
-when but three years of age.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter bbox">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Christmas_Wish_For_All_My_Friends">A Christmas Wish<br />For All My Friends</h2>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-While Christmas bells are chiming, oh, may there come to you</div><div class="verse">
-A dear sweet little fairy, who's always good and true;</div><div class="verse">
-The little HAPPY FAIRY, who drives away dull care,</div><div class="verse">
-And makes all things upon the earth seem ever bright and fair.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-She'll whisper to good Santa to bring what you most wish;</div><div class="verse">
-So if you have been longing for a fine pudding dish,</div><div class="verse">
-He will not, as in by-gone years, forget and bring to you</div><div class="verse">
-Something that you do not want, though beautiful and new.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-The HAPPY FAIRY'S MAGIC is in this wondrous leaf,</div><div class="verse">
-Which drives away all "bogies," and banishes all grief;</div><div class="verse">
-So if you would be happy, wealthy, wise and well.</div><div class="verse">
-Kiss the MAGIC WISHING LEAF from HAPPY FAIRY'S DELL.</div>
-</div>
-</div></div>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="PREFACE"><span class="xlarge">PREFACE</span></h2>
-</div>
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image007" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image007.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<p>This little book is dedicated to all of my relatives and to the following
-friends:</p>
-
-<p>Mrs. Lucy Dillard Tabb Okeson, Miss Fannie F. Sams. Mr. and Mrs.
-William Webb, Misses Blanche, Helen and Wydie Webb, Mrs. William
-Sharp, Mrs. McAlpine, Miss Rebekah McAlpine, Mrs. John C. Taylor,
-Dr. and Mrs. Adams, Walter and Forestall Adams, Miss Isabelle Nusbaum,
-Virginia Leigh Morris, Bertram and Virginius Nusbaum, Mr. Albert
-Warrington, Neely Warrington, Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Nusbaum, Mrs.
-Charles Rowland, Elsie Rowland, Fred Riddle, Barry and Wilson Dodson,
-Eugenie and Richard Jones, Christine Neubauer, of Norfolk, Virginia.</p>
-
-<p>Doctor Zamenhof, Warsaw, Poland; Prof. George Macloskie, LL. D.
-D. Sc., of Princeton University; Mrs. George Macloskia, Princeton, N. J.;
-M. Edmond Privat, Geneva, Switzerland; Mr. Sharon O. Brown, Providence,
-R. I.; Mr. Charles E. Randall, Seattle, Washington; Mrs. William
-Westcott, Holley, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. William Warren, Newburgh, Ind.</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Arthur Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Guthrie, Mrs. A. R. Hornbrook,
-Dr. Walter H. Fox, Miss Berthe Papot, Miss Dorothy Millican, Miss
-Polly Young, of Chicago, Illinois.</p>
-
-<p>Prof. Edwin C. Reed, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts, of
-the Christian Herald: Dr. D. O. S. Lowell, of Roxbury Latin School;
-Rev. Horace Dutton, of the Christian Endeavor World; Dr. William Gray
-Nowell, Mr. John Fogg Twombly, Miss Eugenie Ohman, of Boston, Mass.;
-Edwin and Dorothy Ehrman, of Rockport, Ind.; Dr. W. Addis, Guaymas,
-Mexico; Mrs. Maybelle Anderson, Haverhill, Mass.; Miss Ella Thomas,
-Monterey, Cal.; Dorothy Kirk, DesMoines, Iowa, Miss J. E. Hamand,
-Schaller, Iowa; Mrs. Annie H. McDermid, Fontanelle, Iowa; Mrs. Robert
-Winthrop Barr and Nelson Barr, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mrs. Maria T. Bird,
-Rockland, Maine: Mr. Harry Warren, Mr. Frank Kirkpatrick, Cincinnati,
-Ohio; Miss Ruth Rickinson, Columbus, Ohio; Dr. Clara Todson and Mr.
-Joseph Burila, Elgin, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Dungan, Barton, Ohio; Mr.
-Herbert M. Scott, Moundsville, W. Va.; Miss Mary F. Kelly Brambleton,
-Va.; Mrs. W. W. Davies, Richmond, Va.; Earl Stratton, Jamestown, N. Y.;
-Miss Lois L. White and Mrs. W. D. Christman, Washington, Pa.; Max
-Bosquet, Roanne et Loire, France; Miss Emily Allen, Miss Jessie and
-Mary Eggleson, Dr. Levi Old, of Norfolk, Va.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span></p>
-
-<p>Mrs. Linna Hennig Sherman, Miss Adaline Sherman, Mrs. Flora Williams,
-Mrs. Alma Shafer, Dr. W. S. Hamilton, Prof. Walter Ross, Prof.
-C. C. Brilles, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Vester, Mrs. J. W. Bryan, Miss Elizabeth
-Dean, Miss Margaret O'Brien, of Wheeling, W. Va.</p>
-
-<p>Mrs. John Speed, Memphis. Tenn.; Mr. Frank Royster, Colorado
-Springs, Col.; Dr. Chase, Galveston, Texas; Prof. John E. McFadyen, Mr.
-and Mrs. Max Arno Frind, Mr. Robert Sangster, of Toronto, Canada.</p>
-
-<p>Mrs. Lyde Morrow Petty, Miss Edith Edeburn, Leicester and Kenneth
-Fisher, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. King, Mr. James
-G. Diller, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Lieutenant Arthur Crenshaw, U. S. N.;
-Mrs. Arthur Crenshaw, Shanghai, China; Major H. W. Yemans, U. S. A.;
-Capt. G. W. Kirkpatrick, U. S. A.; Francisko Yamota, Osake, Japan.</p>
-
-<p>Prof. Clayton R. Bowen, Mrs. Margaret Bowen, Meadville, Pa.;
-Misses Mame, Jennie and Gwen Leo, Master Chap Leo, Mrs. L. H. Hall,
-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Montgomery, Gertrude, Jean and Richard Montgomery.
-Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Lloyd, Mr. J. C. Spencer, Miss Eleanor
-Long, of Erie, Pa.</p>
-
-<p>In Evansville, Indiana: The Editors of "THE COURIER," Mr.
-Henry C. Murphy, Mr. Howard Roosa, Mr. Percy Carroll, Mr. Karl Kae
-Knecht, Master John Speed Murphy, Miss Josephine Greene, Mr. Alfred
-Greene, Master Howard Roosa, Miss O'Hara, Mary Sisson, Virginia
-Whittemore, Marjory Moore, Alice Ashby, Martha Denby, Margaret Ruston,
-Virginia Clarke, Miss Irene Jenner, Lawrence Jenner, Horace and
-Fred Cross, Fritz and Ralph Dryborough, Wesley and John Downer, Oscar
-Uhl, Jep Hardig, Raymond Chesley, Walter Weber, Misses Anna and
-Ella Runcie, Edna and Alma Speck, Margaret Bacon, Loraine Cutler,
-Sallie Whittemore, Salibelle Royster, Janie Sonntag, Katherine Imbusch,
-Otilda, Margaret and Katharine Goslee, Harriet Knauth, Katherine Lewis,
-Halene Busse, Caroline Patrick, Suzette Dunlevy, Katherine Wellman,
-Dorothy Hannett, Mrs. M. O. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Runcie, Dr.
-L. D. Brose, Mr. Marshall White, Edgar and Melville Garvin,
-Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Royster, Ruth Helen Birt, Charles Sherwood, Mr.
-Neal Waledn, Mary, Frances, Helen and Hugh Harris, Charlie Donnelly,
-Glenn Kirkpatrick, Bertha White.</p>
-
-<p>Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Wocher, Mrs. Katherine Brown, Mrs. John
-Candee Dean, Mrs. William Turner, Miss Mary McEvoy, Miss Ethel Black
-Kealing, of Indianapolis, Ind.</p>
-
-<p>Mrs. Anna Chase Brainard, Dr. S. Y. Howell, Mr. Edward F. Graham,
-Mr. Russell R. Johnson, of Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. and Mrs. W. Baker,
-Terre Haute, Ind.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="center"><span id="plate_1">Plate 1</span></p>
-<div class="bbox2 center">
-<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="plate_008-1year_age" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/plate_008-1year-age.jpg" alt="" /></div>
-<p class="caption center">[AUTHOR AT ONE YEAR OLD]</p>
-</div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Pets_Christmas_Carol"><span class="font1 large">The Pet's Christmas Carol</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image009a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image009a.jpg" alt="" />
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-"Tweet-tweet-tweet!" sang the canary,</div><div class="verse">
-Which meant that he was very merry,</div><div class="verse">
-Because his little mistress Nell,</div><div class="verse">
-On Christmas eve had fed him well.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-"Bow-wow-wow!" sang the gay young pup,</div><div class="verse">
-"My master's gone away to sup,</div><div class="verse">
-But though he won't be here for tea,</div><div class="verse">
-Just see the meal he left for me!"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-"Mew-mew-mew!" sang the mamma cat,</div><div class="verse">
-"Such milk as this will make me fat,</div><div class="verse">
-And oh, I feel so very gay</div><div class="verse">
-This cold and frosty Christmas day."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Each mamma cow sang "Moo-moo-moo!"</div><div class="verse">
-And gentle dove sang "Coo-coo-coo!"</div><div class="verse">
-And every horse and sheep and pig,</div><div class="verse">
-And duck and chicken, small and big,</div><div class="verse">
-A carol sang on Christmas eve,</div><div class="verse">
-Because a FEAST each did receive.</div>
-</div>
-</div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image009b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image009b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Great_Surprise"><span class="font1 large">A Great Surprise</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Mother and Daddy.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-On the nineteenth day of August, in the year of nineteen two,</div><div class="verse">
-Most kind and gracious Madame Stork right over Norfolk flew,</div><div class="verse">
-And brought to my dear mother there a wonderful surprise,</div><div class="verse">
-A little red brown baby girl with large blackberry eyes.</div><div class="verse">
-Now, mother she had asked the stork to bring to her much joy,</div><div class="verse">
-And drop a bundle at her door containing a wee boy,</div><div class="verse">
-But when the stork made a mistake and brought just little me,</div><div class="verse">
-She thought that I was better far than any boy could be.</div><div class="verse">
-And wrapped me in the blanket which she'd planned for my wee brother,</div><div class="verse">
-And which my dear "MA MIE" had knit to help my busy mother.</div><div class="verse">
-She changed the name of Lionel to little Winifred,</div><div class="verse">
-And all the things for brother planned, she gave to me instead.</div>
-</div>
-</div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Santas_Reindeer_In_The_Sky"><span class="font1 large">Santa's Reindeer In The Sky</span></h2>
-</div>
-<p class="cb">(Written for Grandmother Sackville.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image010" style="max-width: 31.25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image010.jpg" alt="" />
-<p class="caption center">[SANTA'S AEROPLANE]</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Long, long ago, before this earth had any girls and boys</div><div class="verse">
-To hang their stockings on the shelf, expecting Christmas toys,</div><div class="verse">
-Good Santa was a big white cloud that floated in the sky;</div><div class="verse">
-if you had lived in those old days, you'd seen him floating by.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-But when the children came to rule upon good Mother Earth,</div><div class="verse">
-She took kind Santa from the sky and made him God of Mirth;</div><div class="verse">
-To bring at every Christmas time good gifts to girls and boys</div><div class="verse">
-And make them all so happy with a lot of lovely toys.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Far, far among the icebergs, in the cold and freezing zone,</div><div class="verse">
-She built for him a palace, where he lives almost alone,</div><div class="verse">
-With only good old Mrs. Claus to keep him company,</div><div class="verse">
-And sometimes Cousin Nicholas for two days or for three.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Wise Mother Earth she knew this clime would suit good Santa well,</div><div class="verse">
-For here no foolish, idle folks would ever come to dwell;</div><div class="verse">
-Nor pay the good Saint visits which would waste his precious time,</div><div class="verse">
-While he could work much faster here than in a warmer clime.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-But never did he suffer from the icebergs at the Pole,</div><div class="verse">
-As Fairies kept his fireplace all full of red hot coal;</div><div class="verse">
-Or heaped bright burning logs on it as full as it could hold,</div><div class="verse">
-So Santa never felt at all old Jack Frost's biting cold.
-</div></div>
-</div></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span></p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Likewise these Fairies brought to him and his most faithful spouse,</div><div class="verse">
-Just everything that they could need to keep a cozy house,</div><div class="verse">
-And even cooked their victuals and brought them every day</div><div class="verse">
-Exactly at the proper time, upon a huge hot tray.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-And after they had eaten all the dainties on the tiny,</div><div class="verse">
-The good kind fairies they would come and take the tray away;</div><div class="verse">
-So Mrs. Claus had no excuse for being cross or sad,</div><div class="verse">
-Since no experience she had had with Bridgets getting mad.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-When Santa finished all his toys, he put them in a sack,</div><div class="verse">
-Where he intended carrying them upon his great broad back,</div><div class="verse">
-But Mother Earth surprised the saint and to his palace led</div><div class="verse">
-Eight lovely prancing reindeer and a large commodious sled.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-These reindeer were the cousins of swift Pegasus, the steed</div><div class="verse">
-Who helped the hero Perseus when he was in great need;</div><div class="verse">
-And like the flying hero horse, they lived up in the sky,</div><div class="verse">
-'Till Mother Earth had need of them to help old Santa fly.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-And so on every Christmas eve for full ten hundred years,</div><div class="verse">
-Good Santa and his reindeer fleet have banished childrens' tears,</div><div class="verse">
-By bringing them 'most all the gifts their little hearts could wish,</div><div class="verse">
-And filling stockings, shoes and plates and great round pudding dish.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-But when last Christmas came around, good Mother Earth she said,</div><div class="verse">
-"Dear Santa I have something fine for you to use instead</div><div class="verse">
-Of your good, faithful reindeer and your big old fashioned sled,</div><div class="verse">
-For here's a lovely aeroplane all painted shining red."
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-The wise old lady then declared that he could safely fly</div><div class="verse">
-With this machine 'most anywhere away up in the sky,</div><div class="verse">
-And travel far, far faster than reindeer who were fleet</div><div class="verse">
-But stumbled sometimes on the roofs made slippery with sleet.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-The aeroplane could carry well a larger load of toys,</div><div class="verse">
-So he could visit more good girls and also little boys,</div><div class="verse">
-Who live in far off heathen lands where everyone's a sinner,</div><div class="verse">
-But that's no reason each should do without a Christmas dinner.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-With this machine he'd save some time to look out for each pet</div><div class="verse">
-Of all the little girls and boys as they so oft forget</div><div class="verse">
-To treat their pets most kindly upon the Christmas morn</div><div class="verse">
-In memory of the Saviour, who on this day was born.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-And likewise all the horses, the cows and pigs and sheep,</div><div class="verse">
-For men so seldom think of them when Christmas time they keep;</div><div class="verse">
-And even wild, fierce animals, and fishes in the sea,</div><div class="verse">
-Should all be made quite happy at Christmas time to be.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-"I do not like this plan at all of giving up my sled</div><div class="verse">
-And my good faithful reindeer," so good old Santa said.</div><div class="verse">
-But Mother Earth she laughed at him and said she would repay</div><div class="verse">
-The reindeer, whom she would send home, straight to the milky way.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-But Santa was old fashioned and had great fears to fly</div><div class="verse">
-Without his sled and reindeer, he'd used in years gone by,</div><div class="verse">
-And begged that on his maiden trip these true old friends to take</div><div class="verse">
-To help him should the aeroplane prove but a wicked fake.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span></p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-The laughing Earth she granted him this very small request,</div><div class="verse">
-And early on glad Christmas eve (the eve of all most blest),</div><div class="verse">
-He started forth upon his trip, did good old Santa, dear,</div><div class="verse">
-Guiding his Wright aeroplane with feelings of great fear.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-But Mother Earth showed she was wise and knew just what was best</div><div class="verse">
-To help the good old tired saint while on his children quest;</div><div class="verse">
-And fast the good Wright aeroplane it flew both low and high,</div><div class="verse">
-So Santa took the Earth's advice, and though he heaved a sigh,
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-He dropped the poor old worn out sled as he was passing by,</div><div class="verse">
-And people said, who saw it fall, "A METEOR FROM THE SKY!"</div><div class="verse">
-Then kissing each good reindeer, he bade them all farewell,</div><div class="verse">
-And left them in the MILKY WAY, forever there to dwell.
-</div></div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-And you, my little children, who have heard the tiny hoofs</div><div class="verse">
-Of the little flying steeds pattering on the roofs,</div><div class="verse">
-If you would like to catch a glimpse of Santa's good reindeer,</div><div class="verse">
-Then wait until it's dark some night, and when the sky is clear,</div><div class="verse">
-You'll see them very plainly in the broad light MILKY WAY,</div><div class="verse">
-And there for all the time to come, these steeds will romp and play.
-</div></div>
-</div></div>
-
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image012a" style="max-width: 31.25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image012a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image012b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image012b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="cb">Written for my Godmother, Mrs. Lucy Dillard Tabb Okeson, of Norfolk, Va.</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-When I was one year old,</div><div class="verse">
-So often I've been told,</div><div class="verse">
-Dear "Ma Mie" sang to me</div><div class="verse">
-This cunning poetry:</div><div class="verse">
-"Mousie, pousie, wousie,</div><div class="verse">
-In the Boush Street Housie,"</div><div class="verse">
-And always from that time</div><div class="verse">
-I've loved to make a rhyme,</div><div class="verse">
-So if it be my fate</div><div class="verse">
-To write a poem great,</div><div class="verse">
-Then dearest, sweet "Ma Mie,"</div><div class="verse">
-The praise belongs to thee.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Nissen_The_Santa_Claus_of_Norway"><span class="font1 large">Nissen, The Santa Claus of Norway</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="image013" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image013.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="caption center">[<span class="smcap">Nissen</span>]</p>
-
-<p class="cb">(The story told in this rhyme was sent to the author by her globe-trotting
-friend, Mrs. William Westcott, from Christiana, Norway.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-How glad I am that I was born in this land very dear,</div><div class="verse">
-Where children have a Santa Claus of whom they have no fear;</div><div class="verse">
-A Santa who is always kind, remembering one and all,</div><div class="verse">
-When every year at Christmas time, he pays us all a call.</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-In far away chill Norway, there NISSEN is the name</div><div class="verse">
-Of the Christmas visitor who bears good Santa's fame;</div><div class="verse">
-But he's a naughty brownie, so short and very small;</div><div class="verse">
-Not a bit like Santa, who is large and fat and tall.</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-But like our good gift giver, his beard is long and white,</div>
-<div class="verse">
-And he wears a coat of furs and many colors bright;</div>
-<div class="verse">
-But instead of bringing goodies to good girls and to boys,</div>
-<div class="verse">
-Nice new clothes and books and games and lots of wondrous toys.</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-He expects that all the big folks and also little ones,</div>
-<div class="verse">
-Should leave his favorite dishes, such as puddings, cakes and buns,</div>
-<div class="verse">
-Outside of every doorway, so that he may eat at will</div>
-<div class="verse">
-Of these luscious dainties until he has had his fill.</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Then after eating all the cakes his "Tummy-tum" can hold,</div><div class="verse">
-He milks the cows and splits the wood (at least so I've been told),</div><div class="verse">
-But never thinks to bring nice gifts to little girls and boys,</div><div class="verse">
-Whose parents have to trim their trees and buy them all their toys.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Besides, this naughty NISSEN is cross at times and bad,</div><div class="verse">
-And does all sorts of horrid tricks, which I think very sad</div><div class="verse">
-At Christmas, when we all should be so kind to one another</div><div class="verse">
-And treat each person whom we meet as if he were our brother.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-But NISSEN steals away the cows and even horses fleet,</div><div class="verse">
-From all the people who forget to bake him puddings sweet;</div><div class="verse">
-And if above a whisper one should dare to speak or sing</div><div class="verse">
-About this cranky fellow, then this evil he will bring</div><div class="verse">
-Upon the one who dared to throw, his name upon the breeze,</div><div class="verse">
-As from that time the guilty one must sneeze and sneeze and sneeze.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span></p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Now in our land we sing loud praise of Santa all the time,</div><div class="verse">
-And tell about his goodness great, in prose and jingling rhyme;</div><div class="verse">
-And yet it seems the more we sing about the jolly elf,</div><div class="verse">
-The more he brings each year to us upon the mantel shelf.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-But children in far Norway are better girls and boys</div><div class="verse">
-Than we who live in this fair land and think so much of toys,</div><div class="verse">
-That we forget about the pets while feeding our own selves,</div><div class="verse">
-Like thoughtless, greedy little pigs or naughty selfish elves.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-While Norway children in the fall they work to gather corn,</div><div class="verse">
-And save it for the birds they feed on every Christmas morn,</div><div class="verse">
-So we should follow in their steps and feed the wee birds crumbs,</div><div class="verse">
-Before we start to feast ourselves on Christmas sugar plums.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="After_The_Fourth_Was_Over"><span class="font1 large">After The Fourth Was Over</span></h2>
-</div>
-<p class="cb">(Written for Uncle Lionel Sackville.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image014a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image014a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<p class="caption center">[NISSEN PLAYING TRICKS]</p>
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image014b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image014b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-After the Fourth was over, after the play was done,</div><div class="verse">
-Poor little John and Willie forgot that they'd had some fun;</div><div class="verse">
-John, with his eyes all bandaged, Willie with one eye gone,</div><div class="verse">
-Had changed from joyous boys, who rose with the FOURTH'S bright dawn,</div><div class="verse">
-Determined to shoot great cannons and frighten some silly girls,</div><div class="verse">
-To tie big crackers to dogs' tails, and make the pin wheels whirl.</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Tommy with one hand bound up and with a bepowdered face,</div><div class="verse">
-Alex with two burned fingers and bones nearly all out of place;</div><div class="verse">
-Edgar with one leg broken and poor little Peter with two,</div><div class="verse">
-Thought that they'd had enough sorrow to last them a whole life through,</div><div class="verse">
-But mother, who heard them crying, while soothing her darlings to sleep,</div><div class="verse">
-Was thankful that some of the pieces she yet was able to keep,</div><div class="verse">
-And sad for the weeping mother of poor naughty, unlucky Jim,</div><div class="verse">
-As the booming JULY CELEBRATION blew the whole head off of him.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Kitten_Gone_To_Waste"><span class="font1 large">A Kitten Gone To Waste</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(This story was told to the author by Mrs. William Warren, of Newburgh,
-Indiana.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image015a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image015a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-When little Mary Alice was only three years old,</div><div class="verse">
-She went upon a visit to Aunt Maria Hold,</div><div class="verse">
-A lady who was noted for saving everything,</div><div class="verse">
-From gold and silver dollars down to a turkey wing.</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-She soon taught Mary Alice to never throw away</div><div class="verse">
-A single bit of anything which might be used "some day,"</div><div class="verse">
-And Alice, who was clever, she learned to put away</div><div class="verse">
-All bits of ribbon, cloth and lace, and chicken feathers gay.</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Each day she kept quite busy hunting something more</div><div class="verse">
-Which she could take to Auntie or add to her own store;</div><div class="verse">
-And one day in excitement, she ran in greatest haste,</div><div class="verse">
-Crying, "Oh, dear Auntie, sumfins don to waste!</div><div class="verse">
-A perfectlee dood kitty is thrown out on the dump</div><div class="verse">
-Of the kitchen ash-pile, behind the garden pump!"</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image015b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image015b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_New_Baby"><span class="font1 large">The New Baby</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Alfred Greene, Jr., Evansville, Indiana.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-When Alfred saw the baby wee the stork to him had brought,</div><div class="verse">
-He stood quite silent for a while and thought and thought and thought</div><div class="verse">
-Until he'd solved the problem about the CURIOUS ONE</div><div class="verse">
-Who'd traveled far from Storkland, though she couldn't walk nor run.</div><div class="verse">
-Then to his mother he declared in accents of dismay,</div><div class="verse">
-"Dear mother we must send this kid back to her home to-day,</div><div class="verse">
-'Cause someone's cheated us I know and brought us an old child</div><div class="verse">
-With bald head and without a tooth and like an Indian wild."</div><div class="verse">
-Whenever it begins to cry it almost lifts the roof,</div><div class="verse">
-So mother, dear, I think 'tis best for you to keep aloof</div><div class="verse">
-From the old ugly Indian thing and send it to Stork-land,</div><div class="verse">
-Then you and I'll be glad again and go to hear the band.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Woes_Caused_By_Whooping_Bugs"><span class="font1 large">Woes Caused By Whooping Bugs</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Cousin Harvey Stoner, Jr.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image016a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image016a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-If you don't believe that whooping cough causes lots of woe,</div><div class="verse">
-Just catch a few of whooping germs and then I guess you'll know</div><div class="verse">
-That whoopee-whoop! and wheepee-wheeps! are not one bit of fun,</div><div class="verse">
-When you see others playing games where all must jump and run,</div><div class="verse">
-For if you jump or if you run, you start the whoop-oop-oop!</div><div class="verse">
-And even when you're tired you can't sleep for the croup,</div><div class="verse">
-Caused by the awful whooping bugs, which lurk within your throat</div><div class="verse">
-And make your voice sound hoarser than the singing of a goat.</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-For fear of spreading whooping-bugs you certainly can't go</div><div class="verse">
-To Sunday-school or other school, or even to a show,</div><div class="verse">
-But you must stay at home ALONE from three to six long weeks,</div><div class="verse">
-And listen to your croaking voice, which whoops and sometimes squeaks.</div><div class="verse">
-So therefore take the good advice of a little girl who knows,</div><div class="verse">
-And stay away from WHOOPING-COUGH, which causes lots of woes.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image016b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image016b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="How_Simple_Simon_Became_Wise"><span class="font1 large">How Simple Simon Became Wise</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for "St. Nicholas," February, 1909.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Simple Simon met young Heiman reading from a book,</div><div class="verse">
-Said Simple Simon to young Heiman, "Let me have a look?"</div><div class="verse">
-Said young Heiman to Simple Simon, "I will not selfish be,</div><div class="verse">
-My great delight, ST. NICHOLAS, I'll gladly let you see."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Then Simple Simon and young Heiman spent an hour or two</div><div class="verse">
-Reading from this wondrous book, so full of all that's true,</div><div class="verse">
-And when they'd finished Simon lad of Mother Goose's fame,</div><div class="verse">
-By virtue of his knowledge great, WISE SIMON, he became.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="center"><span id="plate_2">Plate 2</span></p>
-<div class="bbox2 center">
-<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="plate_016-2_years_age" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/plate_016-2-years-age.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="caption center">[AUTHOR AT TWO YEARS OLD]</p>
-</div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Too_Many_Dolls"><span class="font1 large">Too Many Dolls</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Wydie Webb, of Norfolk, Va.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Miss Margaret Mary Elizabeth May,</div><div class="verse">
-Had one hundred dollies with which she could play,</div><div class="verse">
-There were bisque dolls and wax dolls and dolls with real hair,</div><div class="verse">
-Red dolls and black dolls and dolls that were fair,</div><div class="verse">
-Fat dolls and plump dolls and dolls in the style,</div><div class="verse">
-Hipless and jointless and dressed in a smile;</div><div class="verse">
-Rag dolls and wood dolls and celluloid boys,</div><div class="verse">
-China and paper and Jumping Jack Joys;</div><div class="verse">
-Irish and Scotch dolls and dolls from Paris,</div><div class="verse">
-And all of the strange lands from over the sea;</div><div class="verse">
-Japies and Chinese and dark Esquimos,</div><div class="verse">
-Dutchies and Germans and cutest Dagoes;</div><div class="verse">
-Dollies from Egypt and dollies from Spain,</div><div class="verse">
-Hindoos and Hebrews and one little Dane.</div><div class="verse">
-From Poland and Russia they'd traveled afar</div><div class="verse">
-By railroad and steamer and also by car</div><div class="verse">
-To join other dollies from Johnnie Bull's home,</div><div class="verse">
-And lovely Italians from far away Rome.</div><div class="verse">
-From Greenland and Iceland, Norway and Greece,</div><div class="verse">
-The string of these dollies seemed never to cease.</div><div class="verse">
-But Margaret Mary Elizabeth May</div><div class="verse">
-Could never decide with which doll to play,</div><div class="verse">
-So she was not happy as poor little Sue,</div><div class="verse">
-Who in her doll family had only two</div><div class="verse">
-Wretched rag dollies without any hair,</div><div class="verse">
-But which she considered a most lovely pair,</div><div class="verse">
-And these ugly dollies they gave her delight,</div><div class="verse">
-As with them she played from morning 'till night.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image016c" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image016c.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Cat_Extincted_The_Canary"><span class="font1 large">The Cat Extincted The Canary</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Josephine Greene, Evansville, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image017" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image017.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Josephine," asked the teacher, "can you tell to me</div><div class="verse">
-Any bird that's now extinct, but used on earth to be?"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-"Oh, yes, Miss Jane," said Josephine, "our sweet canary, Jim,</div><div class="verse">
-Because the naughty pussy cat she quite extincted him."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Boys_Complaint"><span class="font1 large">A Boy's Complaint</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for John Speed Murphy, Evansville, Indiana.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp75" id="image018a" style="max-width: 31.25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image018a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Grandma calls me Johnnie, father calls me John,</div><div class="verse">
-My sweetheart calls me Buddy, and the boys call me Don,</div><div class="verse">
-But mother, oh dear mother, whenever I come near,</div><div class="verse">
-She calls me darling BABY and sometimes "BABY DEAR."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-I like the name of Johnnie, I'm proud of my name John,</div><div class="verse">
-I don't mind hearing Buddy and the shorter name of Don,</div><div class="verse">
-But though I love dear mother far more than all the rest,</div><div class="verse">
-Her name of DARLING BABY I thoroughly detest.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-You see when I am playing with boys in the street,</div><div class="verse">
-And pitching ball or doing some extraordinary feat,</div><div class="verse">
-It makes me feel so little to hear my mother call,</div><div class="verse">
-"Watch out my darling BABY, be careful lest you fall!"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-I'm not a darling baby, nor little baby dear,</div><div class="verse">
-I'm quite a great big boy and have no baby fear,</div><div class="verse">
-But I can't stand the guying the boys give to me,</div><div class="verse">
-When mother starts to calling that hateful name&mdash;"BABEE."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image018b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image018b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Koppa_After_Pi"><span class="font1 large">Koppa After Pi</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-I've very little Latin and very little Greek</div><div class="verse">
-Stored away in my small brain, which yet is very weak,</div><div class="verse">
-But one thing I'll remember, I think until I die,</div><div class="verse">
-And that is that the KOPPA follows after PI.</div><div class="verse">
-And mother says perhaps this solves the very reason why</div><div class="verse">
-The "Kops" they follow after cooks well trained in baking pie.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Whingwang_Sonnet_Of_An_Easter_Bonnet"><span class="font1 large">A Whingwang Sonnet Of An Easter Bonnet</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Cousin Marian Stoner.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image019" style="max-width: 31.25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image019.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Once there was a little girl,</div><div class="verse">
-But she didn't have a curl,</div><div class="verse">
-Though she had an Easter-bonnet</div><div class="verse">
-With ostrich plumes and flowers on it,</div><div class="verse">
-Since like her mother she aspired</div><div class="verse">
-A la mode to be attired.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-But when she rose on Easter morn</div><div class="verse">
-With deepest grief her heart was torn,</div><div class="verse">
-For oh, alas! the rain was falling</div><div class="verse">
-In torrents great; to her appalling,</div><div class="verse">
-As well she knew 'twould spoil her bonnet</div><div class="verse">
-With ostrich plumes and flowers on it.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Her hair in papers she had worn</div><div class="verse">
-The whole night through and tortures borne</div><div class="verse">
-In hopes to have a curl or two</div><div class="verse">
-To wear beneath her bonnet new.</div><div class="verse">
-But now, alas, the horrid rain</div><div class="verse">
-Would make her hair all straight again.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-And so with fear of straightened hair,</div><div class="verse">
-Which might cause folks to laugh and stare,</div><div class="verse">
-And likewise to protect her bonnet</div><div class="verse">
-With ostrich plumes and flowers on it,</div><div class="verse">
-She thought it best to stay away</div><div class="verse">
-From Sabbath school on Easter day.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Giant_Arithmos"><span class="font1 large">The Giant Arithmos</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">This story was told to the author by her teacher, Mrs. A. R. Hornbrook,
-of the Hornbrook Correspondence School of Mathematics, 5622
-Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Ill.</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Great Jack-the-Giant-Killer brave, he killed all giants bad,</div><div class="verse">
-But one good giant's life was spared by this bold warrior lad.</div><div class="verse">
-ARITHMOS was this giant great, and all bright girls and boys</div><div class="verse">
-Should love the famous Giant-King far more than all their toys.</div><div class="verse">
-He's very old, and very great, and also wondrous wise,</div><div class="verse">
-For he can count all things on earth and even tell their size.</div><div class="verse">
-He knows how many birds there are; how high each bird can fly,</div><div class="verse">
-But never does he boast, or brag, or stoop to tell a lie.</div><div class="verse">
-He is so tall that he can reach up to the starry sky</div><div class="verse">
-And count the stars and meteors bright as swiftly they go by.</div><div class="verse">
-'Tis he alone can tell you when a great eclipse will come</div><div class="verse">
-And darken the moon's lady or the old man in the sun.</div><div class="verse">
-He's always so good natured and obliging to us all;</div><div class="verse">
-He'll help us with our lessons hard when for his aid we call,</div><div class="verse">
-And tell us just the number of ripe apples on a plate,</div><div class="verse">
-How far away Chicago is, and if the train is late.</div><div class="verse">
-In fact he always answers us whene'er we ask "HOW MANY?"</div><div class="verse">
-And for his work and trouble never thinks to ask a penny.</div><div class="verse">
-All teachers and professors couldn't teach without his aid,</div><div class="verse">
-And men in every business know through him they will be paid.</div><div class="verse">
-We cannot sing in perfect time, nor even play a drum,</div><div class="verse">
-Divide an apple, buy a doll nor do the smallest sum,</div><div class="verse">
-And even BRIDGE by ladies fair cannot at all be played</div><div class="verse">
-Unless this mighty GIANT-KING will kindly lend his aid.</div><div class="verse">
-So as we cannot get along without "ARITHMOS LORE,"</div><div class="verse">
-We all should learn his wondrous truths and love him more and more.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image020" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image020.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Good_Weather_Assured"><span class="font1 large">Good Weather Assured</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for the Evansville Courier, February 3, 1909.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-When the second of February rolls around,</div><div class="verse">
-Out of his hole in the cold, dark ground</div><div class="verse">
-Comes Mr. Groundhog to look at the sky</div><div class="verse">
-And see if the season of summer is nigh;</div><div class="verse">
-So that he in the fields may merrily run</div><div class="verse">
-And eat farmers' crops 'neath the light o' the sun.</div><div class="verse">
-But if his own shadow he unfortunately sees,</div><div class="verse">
-In the greatest of terror he falls on his knees,</div><div class="verse">
-And quickly returns to his subterra home,</div><div class="verse">
-Resolving that he will not again roam</div><div class="verse">
-'Till six stormy weeks have slowly gone by</div><div class="verse">
-And then once again, perhaps he will try</div><div class="verse">
-To put his flat head above the cold ground,</div><div class="verse">
-And take a survey of the earth all around.</div><div class="verse">
-So I made up my mind that during the year</div><div class="verse">
-I'd keep him at home so he couldn't appear.</div><div class="verse">
-And to bring wintry weather he hadn't a chance</div><div class="verse">
-For of his own shadow he caught not a glance.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Roosevelt_Complimented_By_Mama_Lion"><span class="font1 large">Roosevelt Complimented By Mama Lion</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp93" id="image021a" style="max-width: 31.25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image021a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-One day last week King Teddy arose with old King Sun,</div><div class="verse">
-And seeing a huge lion, he seized his trusty gun</div><div class="verse">
-And made the King of Jungle-land quickly homeward run,</div><div class="verse">
-While Teddy followed after and thought it lots of fun.</div><div class="verse">
-King Lion reached his cavern home, trembling in great fear,</div><div class="verse">
-But when Queen Lion heard his tale, she simply scratched one ear,</div><div class="verse">
-Then shrugged her shoulders a la hump and to her husband said,</div><div class="verse">
-"In all the best newspapers, how often have I read,</div><div class="verse">
-That Teddy loves all parents who large families possess,</div><div class="verse">
-And I am sure with many cubs our happy den is blessed."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Then brave and proud Queen Lion she carried out each babe,</div><div class="verse">
-And placed it in the doorway of her Afro-Jungle cave;</div><div class="verse">
-And there she proudly waited for King Teddy to appear,</div><div class="verse">
-For of his teeth and of his gun she hadn't any fear.</div><div class="verse">
-The coward King of Jungle Land, he bid himself inside,</div><div class="verse">
-And when he heard King Teddy's voice his bones shook in his hide;</div><div class="verse">
-But soon he knew his tears were vain when Teddy laughing said,</div><div class="verse">
-"As mother of fine sextets, you surely rank ahead</div><div class="verse">
-Of all the lions I have met in circus tent or den,</div><div class="verse">
-To meet you I'm DEE-LIGHTED, and I hope we'll meet again."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image021b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image021b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="All_Dentists_Go_To_Heaven"><span class="font1 large">All Dentists Go To Heaven</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Dr. Richard Morris, Evansville, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-I don't like dentists, because they hurt me</div><div class="verse">
-With horrid bad pinchers as sharp as can be.</div><div class="verse">
-They pick at my teeth and scratch in my head</div><div class="verse">
-Until I begin to wish I were dead.</div><div class="verse">
-But I read in the paper (so I suppose it's so)</div><div class="verse">
-That all of the dentists to Heaven will go,</div><div class="verse">
-Because they are needed away up there</div><div class="verse">
-To make gold crowns for the angels fair.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Time_Of_His_Life"><span class="font1 large">The Time Of His Life</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written after seeing a cartoon by Mr. Karl Kae Knecht in the
-Evansville Courier.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp85" id="image022" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image022.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="caption center">[ When He Met a School of Twelve Hippopotami]</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-There are many schools of learning and also schools of game,</div><div class="verse">
-But the school with largest members bears KING HIPPO'S name,</div><div class="verse">
-And big and little people, yes even EVANS' FLEET,</div><div class="verse">
-Would think it quite unpleasant a Hippo school to meet.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-But Bwana Tumbo Teddy, who knows no thought of fear,</div><div class="verse">
-Laughed in joyous pleasure as the SCHOOL drew near,</div><div class="verse">
-And smiling at the leader, he made her stiff with fright,</div><div class="verse">
-As from his parted mouthpiece his white teeth came in sight.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Then Bwana seized his rifle and taking steady aim,</div><div class="verse">
-He fired at Queen Hippo and made her front legs lame,</div><div class="verse">
-Then shooting at her sisters, and brothers left and right,</div><div class="verse">
-He scattered all the mighty beasts and drove them out of sight.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-All those he killed, this hunter brave, then quickly towed ashore,</div><div class="verse">
-Saying, "I'M DE-LIGHTED, and I hope to meet some more</div><div class="verse">
-SCHOOLS OF HIPPOPOTAMI that feel inclined for strife,</div><div class="verse">
-As in this Hippo-battle I'd the time of my whole life."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="King_Teddy_The_Fearless"><span class="font1 large">King Teddy, The Fearless</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">The names of tropical diseases mentioned in this rhyme were given
-to the author by a young doctor who thought they could not be made to
-rhyme.</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-King Teddy has much courage to fight both beasts and men</div><div class="verse">
-With pistols and with broadswords and with the mighty pen.</div><div class="verse">
-And now in Afric jungles he's busy fighting fleas,</div><div class="verse">
-Mosquitoes, and big tigers and monstrous bumble bees;</div><div class="verse">
-Huge elephants, gorillas, and awful Guinea-worms,</div><div class="verse">
-Sloughing phagedaena, and sleeping sickness germs,</div><div class="verse">
-Tinea imbricata, piedra and goundou,</div><div class="verse">
-Malaria and the ainhum, pinta and the sprue,</div><div class="verse">
-Chyluria, mycetoma, leprosy and yaws,</div><div class="verse">
-Afric dysentery and maybe lions' claws,</div><div class="verse">
-Bubonic plague and dengue and dreadful tropic-boils,</div><div class="verse">
-Fevers black and yellow and sometimes serpents' coils,</div><div class="verse">
-Tinea Madagascar, Dhobie itch, screw worms,</div><div class="verse">
-Beri-beri and craw-craw and all the Afric-germs;</div><div class="verse">
-With dread sun-traumatism, and abscess of the liver,</div><div class="verse">
-Yet none of these great terrors can make King Teddy shiver.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image023a" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image023a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Good_Bye_To_Teddy_Bears"><span class="font1 large">Good Bye To Teddy Bears</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Good-bye to all the Teddy Bears, both big and small!</div><div class="verse">
-The "Billy Possums" are in style for one and all,</div><div class="verse">
-We little girls, like older folks, are bound to keep in style,</div><div class="verse">
-And so we have to change our toys most every little while.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-When Roosevelt or "Teddy," was ruler o'er this land,</div><div class="verse">
-All stylish girls and clever boys kept bears on hand</div><div class="verse">
-To play with and to walk with and to put to bed at night,</div><div class="verse">
-As "Teddy Bears" were symbols of the Rooseveltian light.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-But when King Teddy left his throne, Taft got his seat,</div><div class="verse">
-And soft brown teddies disappeared from home and street,</div><div class="verse">
-While "Billy Possums" came to rule for two years or for three,</div><div class="verse">
-When "BRYAN KITTENS" will be hatched and all the rage will be.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image023b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image023b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Cats_A_Kissin_Catechism"><span class="font1 large">Cats A Kissin (Catechism)</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Cousin Patricia Rehn.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Last week my cousin Patti, who isn't yet quite three,</div><div class="verse">
-Went to our good Sunday School with mother and with me.</div><div class="verse">
-She sat quite still and listened well to all the teacher said,</div><div class="verse">
-Until I thought she stowed away much knowledge in her head.</div><div class="verse">
-But when that evening Auntie asked, "What did my darling hear</div><div class="verse">
-When she went to Sunday school; tell me, won't you, dear?"</div><div class="verse">
-She shrugged her little shoulders and said, "Not anyfing</div><div class="verse">
-Except dey said some funny words and den began to sing;</div><div class="verse">
-Though 'bout de cats a kissin', well, the teacher said you should</div><div class="verse">
-Teach me ev'ry evenin' and den I'd be so dood."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Hens"><span class="font1 large">Hens</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Aunt Mary Helena Rehn.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp75" id="image024" style="max-width: 31.25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image024.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-What curious birds are common hens!</div><div class="verse">
-They make good broth and even pens.</div><div class="verse">
-They have no teeth, no hair, no nose,</div><div class="verse">
-But sport a comb red as a rose.</div><div class="verse">
-They have no arms or funny bones</div><div class="verse">
-That causes folks to let forth groans,</div><div class="verse">
-Their victuals they all swallow whole</div><div class="verse">
-And use a craw for a chopping bowl.</div><div class="verse">
-They have no hands, they have no wrists,</div><div class="verse">
-And without hands they can't make fists,</div><div class="verse">
-But for one thing they should rejoice</div><div class="verse">
-And cluck aloud with cheerful voice;</div><div class="verse">
-Not having hands, they have no nails,</div><div class="verse">
-Which are the cause of many wails,</div><div class="verse">
-For once a week we girls and boys</div><div class="verse">
-Must put aside our games and toys</div><div class="verse">
-And all our nice exciting tales,</div><div class="verse">
-While mother trims our finger nails.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="center"><span id="plate_3">Plate 3</span></p>
-<div class="bbox2">
-<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="plate_024-3_years_age" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/plate_024-3-years-age.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="caption center">[AUTHOR AT THREE YEARS OLD]</p>
-</div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Please_Grandpa_Croak"><span class="font1 large">Please Grandpa, Croak</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image025a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image025a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Grandaddy," said young Harry, "do a good turn for me,</div><div class="verse">
-By croaking like a big bull frog so I can plainly see</div><div class="verse">
-If Daddy told the honest truth or only cracked a joke</div><div class="verse">
-Because he said I'd have some "dough" if you would only croak."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image025b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image025b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Wee_Willies_First_Hair_Cut"><span class="font1 large">Wee Willie's First Hair Cut</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Last Friday, for the first time, wee Willie went with me</div><div class="verse">
-To the colored barber, who bowed most graciously</div><div class="verse">
-And asked the little fellow how should he crop his curls,</div><div class="verse">
-Close to his head, in medium length, or bobbed like little girls?</div><div class="verse">
-Wee Willie answered promptly, "My hair, please, barber, crop</div><div class="verse">
-Like my own dear Daddy's, wif a small round hole on top."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image025c" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image025c.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Wise_Replies"><span class="font1 large">Wise Replies</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Uncle Thomas Cresswell, London, Eng.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Joan of Arc, and who was she?"</div><div class="verse">
-Asked the teacher of little Leigh.</div><div class="verse">
-"Wife of Noah, of course," said she,</div><div class="verse">
-"Who sailed the ark upon the sea."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"John's so wise he laughed at Leigh</div><div class="verse">
-When she tried to answer me,</div><div class="verse">
-So in the future for replies</div><div class="verse">
-We'll always go to John the wise.</div><div class="verse">
-Now what is lava, Johnnie, dear,</div><div class="verse">
-Can it be found in places near?"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Why, certainly," said smiling John,</div><div class="verse">
-"Most every day Dad puts it on,</div><div class="verse">
-And covers nearly his whole face</div><div class="verse">
-With lava thick in every place."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="It_Takes_A_Cigar_A_Long_Time_To_Wear_Out"><span class="font1 large">It Takes A Cigar A Long Time To Wear Out</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Mr. Harry Warren, Cincinnati, Ohio.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image026" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image026.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-When Harry Warren was a boy only five years old,</div><div class="verse">
-He wasn't then as he is now, so very big and bold,</div><div class="verse">
-But he was very much afraid of bad tobacco smoke,</div><div class="verse">
-Which seems to those who know him now to be a funny joke.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-He had an uncle on whose knee he loved to sit each day</div><div class="verse">
-And listen to exciting tales about the Pixies gay,</div><div class="verse">
-But when this uncle had a light upon a long cigar,</div><div class="verse">
-Then little Harry used to sit away from it as far</div><div class="verse">
-As he could manage well to get upon his uncle's knee,</div><div class="verse">
-Since Harry feared tobacco smoke more than a bumble bee.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-One day while sitting way far out upon his uncle's knee,</div><div class="verse">
-He grew so very tired as he waited there to see</div><div class="verse">
-The end of the long smoker which made smoke all about</div><div class="verse">
-And said, "It takes that big cigar a long time to wear out."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image026b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image026b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="An_Esperanto_Poem_Plain_To_All"><span class="font1 large">An Esperanto Poem Plain To All</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Prof Macloskie, Princeton University.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Hundido krias&mdash;"Bow-wow-wow!"</div><div class="verse">
-Katido krias&mdash;"Meow-meow!"</div><div class="verse">
-Bovido krias&mdash;"Moo-moo-moo!"</div><div class="verse">
-Kolombo krias&mdash;"Coo-coo-coo!"</div><div class="verse">
-Shafido krias&mdash;"Baa-baa-baa!"</div><div class="verse">
-Infano krias&mdash;"Ma-ma-ma!"</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span></p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Answers_Not_Questions_Cause_Trouble"><span class="font1 large">Answers, Not Questions, Cause Trouble</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">This story was told to the author by Mrs. Frederick Guthrie, of
-Chicago, Ill.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image027" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image027.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i-2">MOTHER.<br /></span>
-<br />
-"Don't bother your father with questions, Ervane,</div><div class="verse">
-He's tired of hearing you ask to explain</div><div class="verse">
-Why fishes can't walk or ride on the land?</div><div class="verse">
-How lizards and fleas can live in the sand?</div><div class="verse">
-What causes the sun to set in the west</div><div class="verse">
-And always to sleep in one golden nest?</div><div class="verse">
-When will the time come for children to fly</div><div class="verse">
-And play in the clouds with the birds in the sky?</div><div class="verse">
-Such foolish, vain questions, they trouble your dad</div><div class="verse">
-And sometimes I fear they make him quite sad."</div><div class="verse">
-</div><div class="verse">
-"No, mother," replied the inquisitive lad,</div><div class="verse">
-"It's the ANSWERS not QUESTIONS that trouble poor Dad."</div><div class="verse">
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Pure_Blooded_Pup"><span class="font1 large">The Pure Blooded Pup</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Mrs. Anna Chase Brainard, of Buffalo, N. Y.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Once there was a little pup who lived in far off Kent,</div><div class="verse">
-Where he was born some years ago in kennels of Lord Dent;</div><div class="verse">
-His mother was of purest blood and likewise was his Pa,</div><div class="verse">
-So he arrived upon this earth without a single flaw.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-His tail was just the proper size and so was each small ear,</div><div class="verse">
-His shapely legs and nose and paws, they pleased his mother dear;</div><div class="verse">
-And with her soft and scarlet tongue she kissed her baby pup</div><div class="verse">
-And loved him, oh, so dearly, that she almost ate him up.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-The keeper of the kennels when he saw this terrier pup,</div><div class="verse">
-Declared, "It's just a beauty and will surely win "THE CUP"</div><div class="verse">
-For being a fox terrier of very purest breed</div><div class="verse">
-And now to my dear master I'll go with greatest speed</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-And tell him of this puppy who will bring our kennels fame</div><div class="verse">
-And ask him what he thinks will be a truly proper name</div><div class="verse">
-For the most perfect terrier that ever came to Kent;</div><div class="verse">
-It seems to me he should be called for my great master "Dent."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-The master when he heard the news that a new pup had come,</div><div class="verse">
-Left off his game of playing cards and drinking pints of rum,</div><div class="verse">
-And hastened to the kennels to behold the wondrous pup,</div><div class="verse">
-Who at the coming dog show was to win the great prize cup.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-The mother dog she wagged her tail, with pride she was puffed up,</div><div class="verse">
-As her great master stood right near and smiled upon her pup,</div><div class="verse">
-While saying, "Higgens, listen well to what I have to say,</div><div class="verse">
-And care for this good mother dog and her fine pup each day.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-I'll name him for my ancestor, the great and famous Kent,</div><div class="verse">
-And in that name to the dog show next year he shall be sent,</div><div class="verse">
-Where I am sure he'll win the prize above all others there</div><div class="verse">
-For he is perfect in his shape and has fine silky hair."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-So little Kent was tended well and petted every day,</div><div class="verse">
-He never had to seek for bones and only had to play,</div><div class="verse">
-And having nothing else to do on mischief he was bent,</div><div class="verse">
-Was this aristocratic pup, owned by the great Lord Dent.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-And when a year had passed around, one day the master came</div><div class="verse">
-To take him to the London show, where he would win great fame;</div><div class="verse">
-But Kent was very naughty, as he did not wish to go</div><div class="verse">
-Away from his good kennel home to any prize dog show.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-At last his master whipped Pup Kent and oh, but he did swear</div><div class="verse">
-Because Kent snapped at Higgens, who was combing his fine hair</div><div class="verse">
-And putting on a collar with a chain of golden beads;</div><div class="verse">
-Such ornaments Kent could not see that any puppy needs.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-At last the royal pup was dressed in pupdom regal style,</div><div class="verse">
-And drove in a fine carriage, oh, for many a weary mile,</div><div class="verse">
-Until he came to London town, where nothing he could see,</div><div class="verse">
-Because all things were bidden with a fog as thick as could be.</div>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span></p>
-
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Before he'd even time to think, this 'ristocratic pup,</div><div class="verse">
-He found himself in a small cage with all the doors shut up,</div><div class="verse">
-And many men were standing round and gazing long at him,</div><div class="verse">
-While passing comments on his shape of head, and tail, and limb.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Kent glared at them in silence and he would not wag his tail,</div><div class="verse">
-In fact just like a good young boy who might be put in jail</div><div class="verse">
-When he had never done a thing to break the country's law,</div><div class="verse">
-So felt this little terrier, this pup without a flaw.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-And when the judges thought that he should have the ribbon blue</div><div class="verse">
-Because of his most perfect blood shown by the records true,</div><div class="verse">
-He snapped and barked and even bit at those who came quite near</div><div class="verse">
-To tie the lovely ribbon on the neck of "PUPPY DEAR."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-So they decided that despite his wondrous pedigree</div><div class="verse">
-There yet was something in his blood that ought not there to be</div><div class="verse">
-And gave the prize, a silver cup, to a more common dog,</div><div class="verse">
-Who lay so still and quiet that he might have been a log.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-But when that evening our Lord Dent beheld with great surprise</div><div class="verse">
-That a less blooded terrier had won the noble prize,</div><div class="verse">
-He felt so very angry that he wished to beat Pup Kent,</div><div class="verse">
-And ordered that the beastly dog should quickly home be sent.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-But while poor Kent was going home so sad and in disgrace,</div><div class="verse">
-He got away from Higgens and he found another place</div><div class="verse">
-Far, far away from kennels of the great and wealthy Dent,</div><div class="verse">
-Near to a peaceful village, the runaway he went.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Here he lay down so tired and thought of many a bone,</div><div class="verse">
-Which now was being gnawed each day by his good ma alone,</div><div class="verse">
-Since Dent, her darling puppy boy, was oh, so far away,</div><div class="verse">
-Oh, how he wished to gnaw a bone with his good ma this day!</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-But as he lay a dreaming of lovely things to eat,</div><div class="verse">
-Quite suddenly a large gray rat ran right across his feet,</div><div class="verse">
-And after it there followed an Irishman named Pat,</div><div class="verse">
-Who sought to make a timely end of bad old Mister Rat.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Big Pat was armed with a huge club and called to his old dog,</div><div class="verse">
-"Now, come along ye lazy baste, before he's in the bog!"</div><div class="verse">
-Then Kent he jumped and in one bound he seized poor Mister Rat,</div><div class="verse">
-Shook him about 'till he was dead and then brought him to Pat.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Big Pat he gazed in wonder at the clever little dog,</div><div class="verse">
-And sitting down upon a large and green moss covered log,</div><div class="verse">
-Said, "Shure, ye bate this lazy hound that kennot catch a rat,</div><div class="verse">
-And if ye'll stay right here, me boy, I'll trate ye well," says Pat.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-Then proudly Kent he wagged his tail and tried so hard to smile</div><div class="verse">
-Upon the good old Irishman, who patted him awhile,</div><div class="verse">
-Then coaxed the stranger after him right through a broad green lane,</div><div class="verse">
-Which led to the fine country home of good Sir Michael Kane.</div>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span></p>
-
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-And here Pat introduced the pup to all the family,</div><div class="verse">
-And they were all so very kind as any folks could be,</div><div class="verse">
-They patted his soft silky hair and praised him to the sky,</div><div class="verse">
-And gave him a big gravy dish all filled with nice meat pie,</div><div class="verse">
-And likewise a huge saucer, which was full of real sweet cream,</div><div class="verse">
-Which made the hungry doggie think that he was in a dream.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-So here Dog Kent decided was the best place for to dwell,</div><div class="verse">
-And here he still is living and is feeling very well.</div><div class="verse">
-He goes each morning to the barn and helps his good friend Pat</div><div class="verse">
-To catch the naughty rodents, who are called the name of RAT.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-The cook she feeds him daily, and he captures all the mice,</div><div class="verse">
-Which love to haunt the kitchen of the cleanly Bridget Bryce.</div><div class="verse">
-While little Mikey loves dear Kent far more than all his toys,</div><div class="verse">
-And says he'd rather play with him than any girls or boys,</div><div class="verse">
-Because he never minds a bit to jump right in the pond</div><div class="verse">
-And bring to land a stick or stone or weeping willow wand.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-He always acts politely to all who may come near,</div><div class="verse">
-And so all strangers pet him and think he is a dear.</div><div class="verse">
-They like his soft and silky hair, which proves he has good blood,</div><div class="verse">
-And never does he make folks mad by tracking floors with mud.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-He's wiser than most common dogs, whose hair is rough and coarse,</div><div class="verse">
-His bark is always pleasant, and 'tis never loud nor hoarse;</div><div class="verse">
-He's swifter also than slow dogs who cannot catch a rat,</div><div class="verse">
-Because they always eat too much and get so very fat.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<span class="i-2">MORAL.<br /></span>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-This story proves that good, pure blood is a fine thing to own,</div><div class="verse">
-But it can't help the puppies or the children all alone,</div><div class="verse">
-Unless these youthful puppies and the children, very small,</div><div class="verse">
-Learn to keep quite busy and to have a smile for all.</div>
-</div>
-</div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image030a" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image030a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Too_ticklish_to_Count_His_Ribs"><span class="font1 large">Too ticklish to Count His Ribs</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Richard Montgomery, Erie, Pa.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image030b" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image030b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-In the class of physiology the teacher asked one day,</div><div class="verse">
-How many ribs have you, my boy, tell me, Dickie Gray?</div><div class="verse">
-And wiggling, giggling Dickie very promptly made reply,</div><div class="verse">
-"Dear teacher, I must tell the truth, for I could never lie,</div><div class="verse">
-But as for ribs I cannot say how many I possess,</div><div class="verse">
-For I'm too awful ticklish to count them, I confess."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Young_Mail_Carrier"><span class="font1 large">The Young Mail Carrier</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Wocher, Indianapolis, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image031a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image031a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Young Billy from his lovely home disappeared one day,</div><div class="verse">
-And when his mother missed her lad she thought he'd run away,</div><div class="verse">
-But soon the sprightly little chap came quickly running back,</div><div class="verse">
-Bearing on his shoulders small, a large round leather sack,</div><div class="verse">
-And said, "Dear mother, I have been a very good, kind boy,</div><div class="verse">
-Trying like the Bible says, to bring our neighbors joy.</div><div class="verse">
-I played I was a postman and I paid each one a call,</div><div class="verse">
-And to the people in this block, I gave them letters, all."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-MOTHER: "But where, my precious little lad, my darling, honey pet,</div><div class="verse">
-Where in the name of goodness these letters did you get?"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-BILLY: "I found them with no trouble; they were the ones that you</div><div class="verse">
-Kept in your top bureau drawer, all tied with ribbons blue."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image031b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image031b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="On_Thanksgiving"><span class="font1 large">On Thanksgiving</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Before you eat good turkey, rich mince and pumpkin pies</div><div class="verse">
-On that great feast or feast days when "tum-tums" grow in size,</div><div class="verse">
-The good old day THANKSGIVING, the best day in the year,</div><div class="verse">
-When all should be so thankful around the board of cheer,</div><div class="verse">
-Then don't forget the poor ones, the hungry, cold and sad,</div><div class="verse">
-Go fill their empty tables and make the whole world glad.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Living_Valentines_Presented_By_Cupid"><span class="font1 large">Living Valentines Presented By Cupid</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">Written February, 1909, for an entertainment at St. Paul's Episcopal
-Sunday School, Evansville, Ind.</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem">
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "I'm glad to see you all to-night,</div><div class="verse">
-And it will give my heart delight</div><div class="verse">
-Some lovely valentines to show</div><div class="verse">
-And make you wish you had a beau." (SHOWS BOW.)</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">FIRST PICTURE&mdash;A SUNBONNET BABY.</span></div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "Here's a little baby fair,</div><div class="verse">
-But you can't see her face or hair."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-BABY: "I'm some one who loves you (POINTING AT AUDIENCE).</div><div class="verse">
-Can't you guess who?"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">SECOND PICTURE&mdash;BOY WEARING A LARGE HAT AND WITH</span></div><div class="verse">
-BACK TURNED TO THE AUDIENCE.</div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "Here's another, called 'GUESS WHO,'</div><div class="verse">
-Come to say, 'How do you do.'"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-BOY: "I'm for my own dear valentine.</div><div class="verse">
-Guess me and I'll be thine."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">THIRD PICTURE&mdash;HEART'S DELIGHT.</span></div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "This is Heart's Delight,</div><div class="verse">
-Look at her face, so beaming bright."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-HEART'S DELIGHT: "If you love me, oh, my dear,</div><div class="verse">
-This is how I will appear." (SMILES AND SINGS A SONG.)</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">FOURTH PICTURE&mdash;HEART'S SORROW.</span></div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "Watch this poor aching heart of sorrow,</div><div class="verse">
-He'll cry all day and perhaps to-morrow.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-HEART'S SORROW: "If you do not love me, dear,</div><div class="verse">
-This is how I will appear."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-FIFTH PICTURE&mdash;TWO JAPS.</div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "Allow me the pleasure to show to thee</div><div class="verse">
-A very sweet picture from over the sea."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">THE JAPS HOLD FANS IN FRONT OF FACES AND SING:</span></div><div class="verse">
-"Jap a ling a ling, Jap aling a lee,</div><div class="verse">
-You're my Jappie baby,</div><div class="verse">
-If you lovee me as I lovee you</div><div class="verse">
-No knife can cut our love in two."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "I'll tell you what they said,</div><div class="verse">
-I'm sure they mean to wed.</div><div class="verse">
-Cho, cho, cho, cho, nano hagi tomare</div><div class="verse">
-Nano haga eyay nawraw teni tomare.</div><div class="verse">
-Dai dai mushi, dai dai mushi</div><div class="verse">
-Tsuno chitto dashare</div><div class="verse">
-Ame kaze foku kara tsuno chitto dashare."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">SIXTH PICTURE&mdash;FRENCH VALENTINE.</span></div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "Now I'll show you a lady from far away France</div><div class="verse">
-Who says, 'Parlez-vous' and knows how to dance."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-FRENCH VALENTINE: "Je vous aime, je vous adore</div><div class="verse">
-Que voulez-vous de plus encore?"</div><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">FRENCH VALENTINE DANCES.</span></div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">SEVENTH PICTURE&mdash;GERMAN VALENTINE.</span></div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "This is a lady who wants a beau,</div><div class="verse">
-In her own language she'll tell you so."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-GERMAN VALENTINE: "Ich liebe dich, lieben sie mich?"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">EIGHTH PICTURE&mdash;COMIC VALENTINE.</span></div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "This a comic, to make you smile,</div><div class="verse">
-And keep you good humored a little while."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">COMIC, HOLDING A LARGE GRAVY SPOON IN ONE HAND, YELLOW</span></div><div class="verse">
-MOON IN OTHER.</div><div class="verse">
-"Of all earthly joys, I love best to spoon</div><div class="verse">
-With thee, oh, my darling, 'neath the light o' the moon."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">NINTH PICTURE&mdash;ANOTHER COMIC.</span></div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "Another comic will now appear,</div><div class="verse">
-I hope that you his plea will hear."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">BOY DRESSED IN RIDICULOUS COSTUME, KNEELING AND</span></div><div class="verse">
-HOLDING A CARDBOARD HEART:</div><div class="verse">
-BOY: "My heart is thine, my soul is thine,</div><div class="verse">
-Won't you be my valentine?"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">TENTH PICTURE&mdash;THE OLD-FASHIONED VALENTINE.</span></div><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "The pleasure now, dear friends, is mine,</div><div class="verse">
-To show you one more valentine.</div><div class="verse">
-This is my dear sweet valentine,</div><div class="verse">
-Sent to us from 'Ye olden time.'"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">GIRL DRESSED IN OLD-FASHIONED COSTUME:</span></div><div class="verse">
-"I am an old-fashioned dame,</div><div class="verse">
-But I love you just the same."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-CUPID: "And I am an Esperanto valentine,</div><div class="verse">
-For me dear friends, you all should pine.</div><div class="verse">
-Karulin' mi amas vin,</div><div class="verse">
-Chu vi amas, amas min?</div><div class="verse">
-Kaj nun mi deziras vin</div><div class="verse">
-Estu mia valentin'!"</div>
-</div>
-</div></div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span></p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="center"><span id="plate_4">Plate 4</span></p>
-<div class="bbox2">
-<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="plate_032-4_years_age" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/plate_032-4-years-age.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="caption center">[AUTHOR AT FOUR YEARS OLD]</p>
-</div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image033" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image033.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Universal_Peace"><span class="font1 large">Universal Peace</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Mr. Charles Randall, Seattle, Washington, (Mia Onklo
-Karlo.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image034" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image034.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="caption center">[ <span class="smcap">No EATA You&mdash;No. Me Know</span> ESPERANTO...<span class="smcap">Knecht</span>]</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Not long ago, Sir Wu Ting Fang,</div><div class="verse">
-A song of peace most sweetly sang,</div><div class="verse">
-Suggesting that the Pension Millions,</div><div class="verse">
-Given yearly will be billions</div><div class="verse">
-Unless all wars be made to cease</div><div class="verse">
-By a Tribunal ruled by "PEACE."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-But good Sir Fang he did not go</div><div class="verse">
-Far off to Hague or else he'd know</div><div class="verse">
-That Peace Tribunals bring not "PEACE,"</div><div class="verse">
-Nor cause all bloody wars to cease;</div><div class="verse">
-As every man from each strange land</div><div class="verse">
-All other men can't understand</div><div class="verse">
-E'en when the learned GO-BETWEEN</div><div class="verse">
-Tries to explain and makes a scene.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Of mighty sword and mightier pen</div><div class="verse">
-Poets have sung time and again,</div><div class="verse">
-But they forgot in songs they sung</div><div class="verse">
-To praise the power of a COMMON TONGUE,</div><div class="verse">
-And ne'er will banners of PEACE be unfurled</div><div class="verse">
-'Till ESPERANTO rules over the world.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="All_The_World_Cries"><span class="font1 large">All The World Cries</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Katherine Wellman, Evansville, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image035a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image035a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Quack-quack-quack-quack!" cries Auntie Duck,</div><div class="verse">
-While Mother Hen goes "Cluck-cluck-cluck!"</div><div class="verse">
-And Papa Dog cries, "Bowwow-wow,"</div><div class="verse">
-And Sister Cat, "Me-ow, me-ow!"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Eek-eek- eek- eek!" squeals Grandma Pig,</div><div class="verse">
-I'm growing, oh, so fat and big;"</div><div class="verse">
-While "Cackle-cackle" all the day,</div><div class="verse">
-The little goslings like to say.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Proud Grandpa Turkey struts along</div><div class="verse">
-With his eternal gobble-song:</div><div class="verse">
-Sir Horse he whinnies, "Hee-hee-hee!"</div><div class="verse">
-And "buzzey-buzzey" goes Miss Bee.</div><div class="verse">
-Sis Maud, the Mule, cries "Hee-hee-haw!"</div><div class="verse">
-And Missy Crow goes "Caw-caw-caw!"</div><div class="verse">
-Good Madam Cow cries, "Moo-moo-moo!"</div><div class="verse">
-And gentle Doves they "Coo-coo-coo!"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza"><div class="verse">
-The Baby Lambs cry, "Baa-baa-baa!"</div><div class="verse">
-And little Kids squeal, "Ma-ma-ma!"</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image035b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image035b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Could_Only_Ask_Questions"><span class="font1 large">Could Only Ask Questions</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Miss Edna Speck, Evansville, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Madelaine," asked her mother, when home she came at noon,</div><div class="verse">
-"How did you like your teacher, or can't you tell so soon?"</div><div class="verse">
-MADELAINE.</div>
-<div class="verse">
-"Oh, yes, I formed my 'pinion long 'fore I started home,</div><div class="verse">
-She's rather pleasant, looks quite wise, and wears a lovely comb,</div><div class="verse">
-But surely she is stupid in spite of her wise looks,</div><div class="verse">
-'Cause she only asked us questions from out a lot of books.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[36]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Let_The_Bumble_Be"><span class="font1 large">Let The Bumble Be</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Cousin Virginia Rehn.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image036" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image036.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="caption center">[ STUNG]...<span class="smcap">Knecht</span></p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-One day I saw a bumble bee bumbling on a rose,</div><div class="verse">
-And as I stood admiring him he stung me on the nose.</div><div class="verse">
-My nose in pain, it swelled so large it looked like a potato,</div><div class="verse">
-So Daddy said, though Mother thought 'twas more like a tomato.</div><div class="verse">
-And now dear children this advice I hope you'll take from me,</div><div class="verse">
-And when you see a bumble bee just let that bumble be.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[37]</span></p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Take_That_Gum_From_Your_Mouth_And_Put_Your_Feet_In"><span class="font1 large">Take That Gum From Your Mouth And Put Your Feet In</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Cousin Pauline Sackville.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image037a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image037a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Young Susie was quite noted for having great large feet,</div><div class="verse">
-And for working both her jaws, this maid could not be beat.</div><div class="verse">
-Her wad of gum she always bore with her unto the school,</div><div class="verse">
-Though well she knew she might be spanked, for 'twas against the rule,</div><div class="verse">
-But skillfully she hid this gum, did naughty little Sue,</div><div class="verse">
-Though oft' behind her little book she took a little chew,</div><div class="verse">
-But once when she was building up a castle in the air,</div><div class="verse">
-And thought she was a lady rich and most entrancing fair,</div><div class="verse">
-While stretching out her legs and feet into the narrow aisle</div><div class="verse">
-And thinking of sweet Bobby Jones, the maid began to smile.</div><div class="verse">
-Then suddenly the teacher cried, above the school room's din,</div><div class="verse">
-"Take that gum from out your mouth and put your feet right in."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image037b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image037b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Tersest_Bathing_Suit"><span class="font1 large">The Tersest Bathing Suit</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">This story was told to the author by Mr. Marshall White, Evansville,
-Ind.</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-When to the seashore Robert went, with Ma and Sister Nell,</div><div class="verse">
-He met a wise professor, who soon taught him to spell,</div><div class="verse">
-Likewise to read of fairy lore and use a real steel pen</div><div class="verse">
-To write to his own father dear, who like most all the men</div><div class="verse">
-Must ever stay at home and work to earn the cents to pay</div><div class="verse">
-For wife and children's outing 'till the summer slips away.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Now all the strange, uncommon words which little Bob could find,</div><div class="verse">
-He stored away and tried to keep in his small, active mind</div><div class="verse">
-So as to use in writing notes to his dear fat old Dad,</div><div class="verse">
-And when the big folks used strange words it made him very glad.</div><div class="verse">
-So one day when of something TERSE he heard his sister tell,</div><div class="verse">
-He asked her for its meaning and he thus rewarded Nell</div><div class="verse">
-By writing to his father, dear, "Oh, Daddy, you should see</div><div class="verse">
-Nell's awful TERSEST bathing suit, which won't reach to her knee."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[38]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Furs_Lined_With_Kittens"><span class="font1 large">Furs Lined With Kittens</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Adaline Sherman, Wheeling. W. Va.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image038a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image038a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Said a rich little girl, who was boasting one day,</div><div class="verse">
-"I'ze too many furs, so I throws dem away,"</div><div class="verse">
-But her poor little friend, who fine furs had none,</div><div class="verse">
-In braggadocia could not be outdone,</div><div class="verse">
-And proudly she showed her little fur mittens</div><div class="verse">
-And said, "I'ze sum odders, do deys lined wid kittens."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image038b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image038b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Boys_Description_Of_A_Goat"><span class="font1 large">A Boy's Description Of A Goat</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Cousin James Diller.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-When the teacher asked young Leo to write a little rhyme</div><div class="verse">
-Describing some strange animal he'd seen at any time,</div><div class="verse">
-He seized his long slate pencil and this is what he wrote</div><div class="verse">
-About the common animal, which children call a goat:</div><div class="verse">
-A goat is stronger than a pig,</div><div class="verse">
-But often it is not as big.</div><div class="verse">
-It has four legs just like a horse,</div><div class="verse">
-But never runs on a race-course.</div><div class="verse">
-It gives good milk, though not as much</div><div class="verse">
-As cows and elephants and such,</div><div class="verse">
-But more than any bull or ox,</div><div class="verse">
-Rooster, ram, or sly old fox.</div><div class="verse">
-Like any mule a goat likes hay</div><div class="verse">
-And all tin cans we throw away.</div><div class="verse">
-He's useful and I'm fond of him,</div><div class="verse">
-But some good folks have a strange whim</div><div class="verse">
-To hold their noses when he's near,</div><div class="verse">
-And act as if they greatly fear</div><div class="verse">
-To touch his fur which has the smell</div><div class="verse">
-Of something I know very well.</div><div class="verse">
-The odor I'd know anywhere,</div><div class="verse">
-It's like Dad's tonic for his hair.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[39]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Riddle"><span class="font1 large">A Riddle</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Miss Mame Leo, Erie, Pa.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image039a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image039a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-One night 'neath the light of a silvery moon</div><div class="verse">
-There sat on a log pile a very fat coon</div><div class="verse">
-And also a little most cunning brown fellow</div><div class="verse">
-Eating of melon so juicy and mellow.</div><div class="verse">
-The large robust coon and the wee little one</div><div class="verse">
-Thought they were having a bushel of fun,</div><div class="verse">
-And laughed very loudly in notes of pure glee,</div><div class="verse">
-For they were as happy as happy could be.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-So here is a riddle I'll give now to you,</div><div class="verse">
-Guess the relations there was 'twixt the two.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-<span class="i-2">ANSWER.</span></div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Most everyone answers, "Why, father and son."</div><div class="verse">
-Not so&mdash;'twas a Mammy and her little one.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image039b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image039b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Grandpas_Head_Cums_Frew_His_Hair"><span class="font1 large">Grandpa's Head Cums Frew His Hair</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Margaret Ruston, Evansville, Ind., and Mr. Wm. Warren
-Newburg, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-When Margaret was a youngster scarcely two years old,</div><div class="verse">
-At climbing chairs and tables this lass was very bold,</div><div class="verse">
-And one day when her grandpa was seated in his chair</div><div class="verse">
-She climbed upon the rounded rungs as if they were a stair,</div><div class="verse">
-And looking at her Grandpa's head, which fast was growing bald,</div><div class="verse">
-She cried out, "Dearest Grandpa, one time you must hab failed,</div><div class="verse">
-Or maybe you've been naughty and dot an awful scare,</div><div class="verse">
-Which taused de top ob yu's round head to tum right frew de hair."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[40]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Susan_Rewarded_For_Twenty_Years_Service"><span class="font1 large">Susan Rewarded For Twenty Year's Service</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Dr. and Mrs. W. Baker, Terre Haute, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image040" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image040.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Professor Theophilus Socrates Snook,</div><div class="verse">
-One day paid a visit to Susan, his cook,</div><div class="verse">
-And beaming upon her with kindliest look</div><div class="verse">
-Said, "Susan, my dear, please gaze at tins book.</div><div class="verse">
-In here you may learn of elephantiasis,</div><div class="verse">
-And also the hookworm, uncinariasis;</div><div class="verse">
-Of craw-craw and chiggers, of ainhum and sprue,</div><div class="verse">
-And all that I've written about them is true.</div><div class="verse">
-Now, Susan, to me you've been faithful, my dear,</div><div class="verse">
-In keeping my house for many a year;</div><div class="verse">
-For years nearly twenty you've been now with me,</div><div class="verse">
-Cooking my victuals just as they should be,</div><div class="verse">
-And truly I think a reward I should pay</div><div class="verse">
-To one who has labored from day unto day.</div><div class="verse">
-So when I discovered a wondrous new germ,</div><div class="verse">
-Which causes young children to wiggle and squirm,</div><div class="verse">
-I thought that this bug for you I would name</div><div class="verse">
-And bring you great glory and honor and fame.</div><div class="verse">
-It's a wondrous discovery, this ungomariasis,</div><div class="verse">
-And so we will call it the SUSANBONPIASIS."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"No, thank you, your honor," said Susan Bawben,</div><div class="verse">
-"I had the bugs once and don't want 'em again,</div><div class="verse">
-And if you onsist upon callin' me BUGS,</div><div class="verse">
-I'll lave you alone wid your books and your drugs."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="center"><span id="plate_5">Plate 5</span></p>
-<div class="bbox2">
-<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="plate_040-5_years_age" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/plate_040-5-years-age.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="caption center">[AUTHOR AT FIVE YEARS OLD]</p>
-</div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[41]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Bridget_Makes_Split_Pea_Soup"><span class="font1 large">Bridget Makes Split Pea Soup</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Lieutenant and Mrs. Arthur Crenshaw, U. S. N.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image041a" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image041a.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Bridget," asked the mistress, "whatever is the matter,</div><div class="verse">
-Nothing ready for our Lunch excepting pancake batter?</div><div class="verse">
-Why, I invited guests to come for lunch at half past one</div><div class="verse">
-And they've been waiting all this time and yet there's nothing done."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Well, mum," replied Miss Bridget, "the fault is all your own,</div><div class="verse">
-For split pea soup you ordered and workin' here alone,</div><div class="verse">
-It's took me most two hours while tryin' just to split</div><div class="verse">
-Three hundred of these blarsted peas, which give me most a fit,</div><div class="verse">
-And as there's still three hundred, 'twill take two hours more</div><div class="verse">
-To split the pesky little things, shure as me name's MAHORE!"</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image041b" style="max-width: 18.75em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image041b.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Lazy_White_Men_Sit_While_Flying_Through_The_Air"><span class="font1 large">Lazy White Men Sit While Flying Through The Air</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image041c" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image041c.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Poor Lo, the Indian, disrespects his brothers wise and fair,</div><div class="verse">
-Who now on aeroplanes are wont to make trips through the air.</div><div class="verse">
-He watches them go circling like birds up in the skies,</div><div class="verse">
-Then grunts, "Heap lazy white man, he sits down when he flies."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[42]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="To_Save_Him_From_A_Whipping"><span class="font1 large">To Save Him From A Whipping</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Howard Roosa, Evansville, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image042" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image042.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-When Mrs. Hall, who had spent the day</div><div class="verse">
-With Mrs. Greene, was going away,</div><div class="verse">
-Wee curly headed naughty Joe</div><div class="verse">
-Begged so hard that she wouldn't go.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Now all the day this roguish lad</div><div class="verse">
-Had disobeyed and been quite bad,</div><div class="verse">
-So Mrs. Hall, in great surprise,</div><div class="verse">
-Paused and looked in his brown eyes,</div><div class="verse">
-While saying, "I'm so glad to know</div><div class="verse">
-You love me truly, dearest Joe."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Oh, 'tisent that," said honest Joe,</div><div class="verse">
-"I wouldn't mind for you to go</div><div class="verse">
-Except my mother said to-day,</div><div class="verse">
-She'd whip me when you went away."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[43]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Skillet_In_Society_Alias_A_Chafing_Dish"><span class="font1 large">A Skillet In Society (Alias A Chafing Dish)</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Mrs. Katherine Brown, Indianapolis, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image043" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image043.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-I heard my mother, just to-day, asking dear old dad,</div><div class="verse">
-To buy her a nice chafing-dish and make her very glad;</div><div class="verse">
-Though he declared its cooking was a waste of alcohol,</div><div class="verse">
-Causing indigestion and perhaps a doctor's call.</div><div class="verse">
-I inner saw a chafing-dish and so I longed to know</div><div class="verse">
-How it looked and what 'twas for and so and so and so;</div><div class="verse">
-But mother would not answer and daddy went away,</div><div class="verse">
-So I sought the kitchen, where Bridget holds her sway,</div><div class="verse">
-And asked her if she ever saw, since she began to cook,</div><div class="verse">
-A chafing-dish on pantry shelf or pictured in a book?</div><div class="verse">
-Then Bridget turned her pug nose up with a "contempshus" air,</div><div class="verse">
-And gave a twist to her small knot of brick dust colored hair,</div><div class="verse">
-And said, "A chafing-dish, my dear, so says Miss B. Moriety,</div><div class="verse">
-Is but a common skillet pan that's got in High Society."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[44]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Autos_Change_Good_Luck"><span class="font1 large">Autos Change Good Luck</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Uncle Cicero Stoner.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image044" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image044.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Poor Uncle Zeke, he's very sad, and says the whole world's wrong,</div><div class="verse">
-For when he was a little boy it was a common song,</div><div class="verse">
-To sing about the luck which came from finding a horse shoe,</div><div class="verse">
-And in those good old lucky days the sign was always true.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-But Sunday when poor Uncle Zeke was walking on the street,</div><div class="verse">
-He saw a lucky horseshoe which was lying at his feet,</div><div class="verse">
-And as he stooped to seize the prize which lay before him there,</div><div class="verse">
-Along an automobile came and whizzed him in the air.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-To-day I saw him lying still and pale upon his couch,</div><div class="verse">
-And oh, my goodness gracious, but he had an awful grouch!</div><div class="verse">
-His hands and arms in bandages were tied securely up,</div><div class="verse">
-And on his forehead was a bump like Aunt Mariah's cup.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-He told me I should listen well and take his counsel sage,</div><div class="verse">
-And never try to get good luck in this fierce auto age,</div><div class="verse">
-By picking up a horse's shoe in street or country road</div><div class="verse">
-No more than I would stoop to seize a common green back toad.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Boy_Who_Was_Hero_And_villian"><span class="font1 large">A Boy Who Was Hero And villian</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Uncle Ernest, Sackville.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image045" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image045.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="stanza">
-One day in a big meeting held by a MERCY-BAND,</div><div class="verse">
-The leader asked each little boy to hold up his right hand</div><div class="verse">
-If he could tell of any deed of kindness he had done</div><div class="verse">
-In saving some poor animal or helping any one.</div><div class="verse">
-Then Ernest held his hand on high and pride suffused his face,</div><div class="verse">
-As from his seat he quickly rose and took the speaker's place,</div><div class="verse">
-While speaking loud in accents clear, "I saved a little pup</div><div class="verse">
-Who had his tail in a tin can all tied securely up.</div><div class="verse">
-I took the can from off his tail and made him bark with joy,</div><div class="verse">
-So mother said and so said dad&mdash;I was a darling boy."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"And so say I," the leader said, while calling him her "DEAR,"</div><div class="verse">
-"But how I wish the wicked boy who did the deed was here."</div>
-ERNEST.</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Well, here he is, for I'm the boy who did that deed as well,</div><div class="verse">
-So I could take the tin can off and of my goodness tell."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[46]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Wise_Ignatius_Escapes_A_Whipping"><span class="font1 large">Wise Ignatius Escapes A Whipping</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Edgar and Melville Garvin, Evansville, Ind.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image046" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image046.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Father," said learned Ignatius, as the strap was preparing to fall</div><div class="verse">
-Down on his trouserless bare-skin, "I don't mind a whipping at all,</div><div class="verse">
-But are you quite certain, dear father, the strap has been well sterilized</div><div class="verse">
-For virulent germs in old leather are often concealed and disguised;</div><div class="verse">
-And surely by violent impact with textile and soft porous skin,</div><div class="verse">
-But lately exposed to the street's dust there's danger of entering in</div><div class="verse">
-Upon my most delicate system, and then comes the big doctor's fee,</div><div class="verse">
-So dear father show you're a wise man and touch not that strap upon me."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-While the learned youth plead, lo! his father upon that dread strap loosed his hold,</div><div class="verse">
-And thus he escaped from a whipping, Ignatius, the wise and the bold.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[47]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Nervous_Jelly"><span class="font1 large">Nervous Jelly</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Charles Donnelly, Evansville, Ind.)</p>
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image047" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image047.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-One day when there was company, wee greedy Lillie May,</div><div class="verse">
-Took the jelly nearly all when it was passed her way;</div><div class="verse">
-And in great haste she ate it up with her small silver spoon,</div><div class="verse">
-But oh, alas, the Piggiewig! she was discovered soon</div><div class="verse">
-By mother, who was greatly shocked to see her naughty elf</div><div class="verse">
-Eating like a greedy boy from off the kitchen shelf.</div><div class="verse">
-But mother couldn't scold aloud for fear the guest would hear,</div><div class="verse">
-And so she softly whispered, "Don't eat that way, my dear."</div><div class="verse">
-Then Mrs. Dean, the company, she patted Lillie's head,</div><div class="verse">
-And smiling at the jellied face, she to the culprit said,</div><div class="verse">
-"I've always liked the jelly good which makes my bread so sweet,</div><div class="verse">
-And surely it tastes better still when with a spoon we eat</div><div class="verse">
-This lovely, wobbling dainty, which is loved by one and all,</div><div class="verse">
-From little girls and tiny boys to great men, large and tall."</div><div class="verse">
-This speech encouraged Lillie May, who nodded her wise head</div><div class="verse">
-And said, "Besides dis jelly is too nervous for to spread."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[48]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="One_Johnson_More_One_Smith_Less"><span class="font1 large">One Johnson More, One Smith Less</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Salibelle Royster, Smith's Mills, Kentucky.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image048" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image048.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-When Zekiel Rastus Johnson had the courage to propose</div><div class="verse">
-To lovely Miss Amanda Smith, she turned up her flat nose</div><div class="verse">
-And said, "Now Rastus Johnson, how dare you ask of me</div><div class="verse">
-To change my 'ristocratic name and Mrs. Johnson be,</div><div class="verse">
-When now in the directory, the Johnsons are ahead</div><div class="verse">
-Of our most noted family, so 'course I would not wed</div><div class="verse">
-With you to make one Johnson more to swell the Johnson line,</div><div class="verse">
-While Smiths in number take back seats where they can never shine."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="center"><span id="plate_6">Plate 6</span></p>
-<div class="bbox2">
-<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="plate_048-6_years_age" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/plate_048-6-years-age.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="caption center">[AUTHOR AT SIX YEARS OLD]</p>
-</div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[49]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Pride"><span class="font1 large">Pride</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for St. Nicholas, June, 1909.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image049" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image049.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-The Bible says that pride's the cause of people falling down,</div><div class="verse">
-And an example of this truth I once saw in our town,</div><div class="verse">
-When we were driving on the street and watching passers-by,</div><div class="verse">
-From out a store stepped a fine dude, all dressed in silk hat high,</div><div class="verse">
-And pants so tight he could not take a single manly stride,</div><div class="verse">
-His moustache curled and round his neck a ribbon pink and wide,</div><div class="verse">
-While in his hand a gold head cane, which he twirled round and round,</div><div class="verse">
-So that the people all would know a great man was in town;</div><div class="verse">
-But being filled with pride of self he did not know his heel</div><div class="verse">
-Had come in contact with a part of a banana peel</div><div class="verse">
-Until it felled him to the earth and smashed his silk hat's crown</div><div class="verse">
-And even then he did not know 'twas PRIDE that knocked him down.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[50]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Job_Smarter_Than_Modern_Babies"><span class="font1 large">Job Smarter Than Modern Babies</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image050" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image050.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Mother," said Lida, "why can't brother speak,</div><div class="verse">
-Is he so stupid or only just weak,</div><div class="verse">
-Like poor ancient Grandma, when she has a cold,</div><div class="verse">
-And loses her voice so she can't even scold?"</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"No, darling," said mother, "your brother can't talk,</div><div class="verse">
-Eat sugar candy, nor even yet walk,</div><div class="verse">
-As he is a baby the size of your doll,</div><div class="verse">
-And babies can't talk when they are so small."</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-"Then, mother," said Lida, "the kids nowadays</div><div class="verse">
-Are not half so smart in all of their ways</div><div class="verse">
-As babies who lived in the long, long ago,</div><div class="verse">
-For dear teacher told me (so 'course it is so,)</div><div class="verse">
-That Job in the Bible cursed the day he was born,</div><div class="verse">
-I 'spose like big Tom, when he can't play his horn."</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[51]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Only_Naughty_Children_See_Spooks"><span class="font1 large">Only Naughty Children See "Spooks"
-On Hallow'een</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(Written for Aunt Winifred Broad,<br />
-Stockleigh Pomeroy, England.)</p>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Witches and goblins, spooks and elves,</div><div class="verse">
-With sprites and gnomes from elf-land delves,</div><div class="verse">
-To-night are flying here and there,</div><div class="verse">
-Yes, up and down and everywhere.</div><div class="verse">
-For this one night in all the year,</div><div class="verse">
-They rule the earth and bring great fear</div><div class="verse">
-To all the naughty little boys</div><div class="verse">
-Who tease good girls and break their toys.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-These spooks they also make girls sad</div><div class="verse">
-When they are selfish, cross and bad;</div><div class="verse">
-So when it's dark, bad boys and maids</div><div class="verse">
-They see these awful fearsome shades,</div><div class="verse">
-And that is why with covered heads,</div><div class="verse">
-They trembling lie in their warm beds.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-But even there, they goblins see,</div><div class="verse">
-Spooks, and gnomes and all that be</div><div class="verse">
-Abroad upon weird Hallow'een,</div><div class="verse">
-When all the wizards may be seen</div><div class="verse">
-By naughty kids and grown up folks,</div><div class="verse">
-Who like to play most wicked jokes.</div>
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-But good young girls and gentle boys,</div><div class="verse">
-The kids who are their mothers' joys,</div><div class="verse">
-They like the dark just as the light,</div><div class="verse">
-For spooks ne'er come within their sight,</div><div class="verse">
-And in their dreams the lovely elves</div>
-Show them bright scenes from fairy delves.</div><div class="verse">
-</div>
-<div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-So, if to-night you are afraid</div><div class="verse">
-Of any spook or any shade,</div><div class="verse">
-We'll know you are a naughty child,</div><div class="verse">
-So cross and willful, rude and wild.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[52]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="Six_Year_Old_Girl_Writes_Poem_Hoping_To_Save_Forest_Trees"><span class="font1 large">Six Year Old Girl Writes Poem Hoping To Save Forest Trees</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="cb">(From "The Woman's National Daily.")</p>
-
-<p>The following rhyme was written by a little 6-year-old-girl in hopes
-to save a beautiful forest near Evansville, Ind., and to help the Children's
-Outing Farm. A short account of the little girl's work as an
-Esperantist appeared in a recent issue of The National Daily and a number
-of articles concerning her abilities as a linguist have appeared in
-other publications.</p>
-
-<p>She is the youngest child in the world holding a diploma from Dr.
-Zamenhof for being able to read, write and speak in Esperanto, and she
-also speaks French as well as English.</p>
-
-<p>This little girl, who was born in Norfolk, Va., has been a lover of
-books since her babyhood days. She knew Mother Goose by heart when
-but 1 year of age and learned to read when but 2. At 4 she read Lamb's
-Tales of Shakespeare and had finished the fifth reader. A few months
-ago she was sent to school, but could not be graded, as she could read,
-write and spell anything, but knew nothing of arithmetic. The noted
-mathematician, Mrs. Hornbrook, of Chicago, having met the little girl
-at Chautauqua, N. Y., and knowing of her mental powers, asked to instruct
-her in this branch, and she soon taught her the rudiments of arithmetic.</p>
-
-<p>She is the daughter of Dr. J. B. Stoner, Surgeon in the Public
-Health and Marine Hospital Service, and Winifred Sackville Stoner,
-President of the Woman's Esperanto League.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="image052" style="max-width: 25.4375em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/image052.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="An_Appeal_To_The_Fairies"><span class="font1 large"><span class="font1 large">An Appeal To The Fairies</span></span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<div class="verse">
-Good Fairies, save the lovely trees which live on Coal Mine Hill!<br />
-Their home has been your home so long, your hearts with grief wou</div><div class="verse">
-Should stout men armed with axes come and fell them to the earth,</div><div class="verse">
-These monarchs of the forest, these jewels of great worth.</div><div class="verse">
-The giant oaks and stately elms, the rulers of this wood,</div><div class="verse">
-Have watched the growth of Evansville and helped it as they could.</div><div class="verse">
-They gave their shade and soft bright leaves to make a downy nest</div><div class="verse">
-To shelter the first baby boy that Evansville possessed.</div><div class="verse">
-Before this city had a church in which both bad and good</div><div class="verse">
-Could ask forgiveness of the Lord, they worshipped in this wood;</div><div class="verse">
-And those who love the beautiful and lovely scenes to see,</div><div class="verse">
-They climb upon this grassy hill and stand beneath some tree,</div><div class="verse">
-While gazing far as eye can reach to fair Kentucky's lands,</div><div class="verse">
-Or looking at the river shore on which our city stands.</div><div class="verse">
-Above their heads the bright blue sky, green grass beneath their feet,</div><div class="verse">
-And all around a lovely scene such as we seldom meet;</div><div class="verse">
-Green pastures with cows grazing, broad river flowing by,</div><div class="verse">
-And many tall church spires lifted toward the sky.</div><div class="verse">
-No fitter place for children nor grown-up folks could be</div><div class="verse">
-Than on this lovely Coal Mine Hill where Nature we may see.</div><div class="verse">
-'Tis here the little orphans and poor children all around</div><div class="verse">
-Find the greatest pleasures which in this woods abound.</div><div class="verse">
-So, dearest, kindest Fairies, please rescue these grand trees,</div><div class="verse">
-And save them for the children&mdash;we ask you on our knees.</div>
-</div></div></div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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