Lemons and Monkeys
Bright
the day on Kingston Scrubby met disaster;
was
When
Hill
the head of the table smiled At tbe question Sctubby asked her.
Brightly
'Twas a simple thing that Scrubby asked Of the teacher kind and clever; O wonder tbat such a simple thing Should friendship thus dissever! tbe difference that one may mark In lemons and monkeys wild; was the question tbat Scrubby asked And as he asked, he smiled.
Only This
The teacher frowned and wTinkled her brow, And sought the answet I to find; But lemons and monkeys v.ere all the same In the eyes of the teache r kind.
Then
Scrubby grinned and shook his si And rattled his fork and spoon. To think that the teacher, wise and gr Would squeeze a big baboon. 'If lemons I wished to buy perchance At the village store," said he, "A messenger ] should wish, forsooth.
The teacher's face grew fixed and sten And darkly flashed her eyes. And Scrubby wept at the wrack of his When he saw her cholc: And
now .nlone in a distant seat. He thinks of the pull he lost;
He thinks of the
joke
And all that it has
But the time will come i:n the glad "Some Dav" When his sin will be forgot, And the teacher's pique ivill melt away And quenched be her
of lemon cost.