concerted, and Mary C. scored a triumph of mind over matter.

One day Mary C. was in the back yard watching her brother climb over a high picket fence. "When I'm a little bigger," announced Langston, "I'm going to jump over this fence."

Mary C. shook her red curls solemnly. "Only Farver and God can jump over that fence," she declared.

Mary C. had a great idea of her father and thought everything about him was exactly right, so there was a sensation one day when the head of the house came home after having had his moustache shaved off in a weak moment. Mary C. ran to the door to greet him as usual, but when she saw this very much changed father she stood perfectly still, staring out of frightened eyes.

"What's the matter, Baby?" he asked with a smile that seemed strangely twisted.

Mary C. tried to be brave and control her feelings, but her voice quivered as she said loyally: "You know, Farver, I luv 'oo very much, no matter how homely 'oo is."

-CLEVELAND MOFFETT.

I

BOYISH ASPIRATION

GUESS they take me for a fool

The kind of things they teach in school!

It's not what teacher says is true

But what I see the grown-ups do.

When I am big enough to fight

I'll show the world that might makes right.

I'm going to sail my airship high
And drop a big bomb from the sky!

Gee! how I'll cheer her as she hits
And blows a bunch of kids to bits!

I'd like beneath a trench to creep
And spring a mine while soldiers sleep.

What fun could any boy think finer
Than watch a warship sink a liner?

BOYISH ASPIRATION-(Continued)

Or be an airman in the dark

Who makes a sleeping town his mark?

And what can gratify desire
Like smashing a cathedral spire?

Instead of love, I'd like to state
That I intend to live on hate.

They seem to think I do not know
That what they tell me isn't so.

I guess they take me for a fool-
The kind of trash they talk in school!

-GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER.