The Spose Brigade

 The Spose Brigade Illustrated
by Eda Bowers Robinson

Illustration with very cute drawings.

S'pose a foot and a foot make two feet.

Does a boot and a boot make two beet?

S'pose a tooth and a tooth make two teeth.

Should a booth and a booth make two beeth?

S'ose a deer and a deer make two deer.

Could a seer and a seer make two seer?

S'pose a sheep and a sheep make two sheep.

Can a peep and a peep make two peep?

S'pose a wife and a wife make two wives.

Will a fife and a fife make tow fives?

S'pose a child and his friend find more s'poses

To add to his rhyme, 'fore it closes.

The Owl and The Bobolink

 The Owl and The Bobolink

A Bobolink trilled a roundelay.
"Halloo!" cried an owl. "That's fine!
I'd like to learn your song--if I may;
It is worth a dozen of mine!

"Folks say that my singing makes them blue;
But I practice the livelong night,
And I can't get a note beyond 'Tu-whoo,'
Though I try with all my might."

"Ha! ha!" laughed the bobolink. "Bob-o-bo-lee!
Men call me a frivolous bird;
But you are pictured from sea to sea
As wondrously wise, I've heard."

Then the bobolink laughed and laughed again,
Till his feathers shook with mirth.
"Such curious, comical creatures are men!
They're the funniest things on earth!