"What is the use?" quoth the Whitewash Brush,
"I'll comb my hair no more;
For try as I will to make it lie,
It still stays pompadour."

[Illustration: A Hopeless Case]




THE GREENHORN


A lettuce walking out one day,
Lost his head, so lost his way;
A Pumpkin happened on the scene,
And said it came from being green.

[Illustration: The Greenhorn]




OLD MR. MATCH


Old Mr. Match gave his head a good scratch,
And his face lighted up with a smile;