THE END OF A PERFECT DAY—(Continued)

Pa ast me if I fought a spankin'd

Do me any good.

I des told him no, I didn't

Really fink it would.

'Bout half ten I found a worm

An' got a fred an' stick

An' started fishin'-talk 'bout fun-
I fell right in the creek.

I dry'd myse'f, mos' nearly

But I jes' would seem to sneeze Until I jes' fergot to, 'cause

I stepp'd among the bees.
'Bout later on I scared my Ma
To finkin' I wuz dead

'Cause I fell down our cellar steps
An' bump'd my nose an' head.
'Iss afternoon wuz awful fun-
My Gran❜pa's knife I found
An' whittled all our furniture
An' ev'ry-fing around.

Ma caught me jes' the wronges' time—
I'se awful mad at 'at

'Cause if she'd stayed away I'd cut

The tail right off our cat.

THE END OF A PERFECT DAY-(Continued)

I cut myse'f free times an' how
It bleeded! Goodness, Gee!
An' now I'm all tucked up in bed.
My fingers bandaged too,
Some smelly stuff is on my head

Where it turned black an' blue.
I hope all little boys an' girls
When they go out to play

Can 'member back on what I call
A perfectestest Day.

-JOHN EDWARD HAZZARD.

Ο

WHY?

NC'T little Wesley Offut watch
His mamma wif the cow,

An' ask her whur cows git their milk,
An' why it wuz an' how?

She puzzle some, an' nen she ask

Him whur he got his tears?— "Oh! so you has to spank the cow?—

How funny that uppears!"

-JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

TH

MY TWIN

HERE is a little girl I know,
Her face I often see;

I look into the looking-glass,
And she looks out at me.

She's just my size, she has my eyes,
She does the things I do;
I wonder, when I go some place,
If she goes somewhere too.

-ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE.