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, 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. All kinds though, it must be con-fessed, Amélie Troubetzkop 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. 1 Copyright, 1887, by HARPER & BROTHERS. PAST THERE, as she sewed, came floating through her head Odd bits of poems, learned in other days And looking up, she saw upon the shelf Had loved them once and found in them all good As well as beauty, filling every need; |