Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells
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"Ah, the poetic foot!" the soloist exclaimed. "There are two kinds of
poetic feet--the Iambic and the Trochaic. You have one of each. In poetic feet the heels are often found in French forms. But poets are a footloose class and are often found with lame and halting feet. You don't seem to be a poet." "Never said I was," retorted Iva, shortly, and Warble said, "Stop this nonsense, it makes too much kicking. Now we're going to play the game I learned in Buda Pesth." She led them to the picture gallery which had been prepared for the game by having many sheets of fly-paper placed on the floor, sticky side up. "It's Fly-paper Tag," she said. It _was_ Fly-paper Tag--she was quite right. "You're it!" screamed Mrs. Givens as she pushed the minister over onto a sheet of fly-paper. "It yourself," shrieked Leathersham adroitly shoving a sheet where he saw Mrs. Givens would light next. * * * * * Warble was certain she was a great reformer. Yet would these reformed people stay reformed? True, they were now in the spirit of her party, Mack Sennett himself |
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