Sudden the wee Elf

Smiled a wee smile,

Tugged till the toadstool Toppled in two. Holding it over him, Gayly he flew.

Soon he was safe home,
Dry as could be.

Soon woke the Dormouse"Good gracious me!

"Where is my toadstool?" Loud he lamented.

- And that's how umbrellas First were invented.

THE MON-GOOS

THIS, Children, is the famed Mon-goos.
He has an ap-pe-tite ab-struse:
Strange to re-late, this crea-ture takes
A cu-ri-ous joy in eat-ing snakes -

All kinds though, it must be con-fessed,
He likes the poi-son-ous ones the best.
From him we learn how ve-ry small
A thing can bring a-bout a Fall.
O Mon-goos, where were you that day
When Mistress Eve was led a-stray?
If you'd but seen the ser-pent first,
Our parents would not have been cursed,
And so there would be no ex-cuse
For MILTON, but for you - Mon-goos!

Ir is good to strive against wind and rain In the keen, sweet weather that autumn brings.

The wild horse shakes not the drops from his mane,

The wild bird flicks not the wet from her wings,

In gladder fashion than I toss free

The mist-dulled gold of my bright hair's flag,

What time the winds on their heel-wings lag,

And all the tempest is friends with me.

PAST

THERE, as she sewed, came floating through her head

Odd bits of poems, learned in other days
And long forgotten in the noisier ways
Through which the fortunes of her life now
led;

And looking up, she saw upon the shelf
In dusty rank her favorite poets stand,
All uncaressed by her fond eye or hand;
And her heart smote her, thinking how
herself

Had loved them once and found in them all good

As well as beauty, filling every need;
But now they could not fill the emptiness
Of heart she felt ev'n in her gayest mood.
She wanted once no work her heart to feed.
And to be idle once was no distress.