fast,
So you've changed your mind at last,
And hither run in scrambling haste,
That you may have a little taste.


But, mouse, I'm quite ashamed to see
You eating crumbs so greedily!
If you go on so fast, you will
Most certainly be very ill.


You've had enough--you're going back
To your small home behind the crack.
Why are you taking that large crumb?
No doubt to give your children some.


Dear mouse--then see--I'll give you more,
Here's a large crumb before your door.
There now--pull harder--pull it through,
And call your friends to feast with you.
E.K.

MY FINGERS

MY lady-like First Finger looks
Extremely grave when up alone--
As though she said, "Now mind your books,
And let your work be nicely done."


My Thumb's a sturdy little chap,
He has no wish to grow up tall,
And says he doesn't care a rap,
Although he's shortest of them all.

A DREAM

LAST night when I was fast asleep,
Who do you think ran after me?
But A, B, C, each holding hands--
It was the strangest sight to see!


A danced a jig on nimble feet,
Fat B sat down upon the bed,
And C, to show what he could do,
Turned round and stood upon his head!


In blank surprise I stared at them--
How odd the dancing letters seemed!
And then I rubbed my eyes and woke,
And knew that I had only dreamed!

RESOLUTIONS

LET us try to be good and content,
Kind to each other,
Healthy and gentle and brave,
Obedient to Mother.


For of such were the heroes of old--
Patient in learning,
Seldom rude, seldom cross, never cruel,
From the truth never turning.

A PENNY AND A PURSE

A PENNY murmured to a purse:
"You feel so nice and smooth a

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