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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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