So sit erect, and smile again!
You need not scowl because you write,
Nor hold your fingers _quite_ so tight!
And if you gnaw the holder so,
They'll take you for a Goop, you know!




[Illustration]

[Illustration: Wet Feet]


_WET FEET_


Down the street together,
In the rainy weather,
Went a pair of little boys along;
One of them went straying
In the gutters playing,
Doing all his mother said was wrong;

One of them went dashing
Into puddles splashing,
Under dripping eaves that soaked him through;
One of them avoided
All the other boy did,
Dodging all the slimy, slushy goo.