And by the proceeds of that verse--
Such as, _e. g._, these little terc-
Ets--is not filled the family purse?

Do we not live on what I sell,
Sonnet, ballade, and villanelle?

* * *

"We do," She says, "and none too well."



Signal Service


Time-table! Terrible and hard
To figure! At some station lonely
We see this sign upon the card:
[Footnote Asterisk: Train 20: Stops on signal only.]

We read thee wrong; the untrained eye
Does not see always with precision.
The train we thought to travel by
[Footnote Dagger: Runs only on North-west division.]

Again, undaunted, we look at
The hieroglyphs, and as a rule a
Small double dagger shows us that