Deportmental ditties : and other verses . ! . . . . . .105 The King and the Book . . . .107 The Devout Plover ....... 109 The Sins of Sobriety ...... Ill Empire Day in Battersea ...... 113 Too Old at Thirty ....... 115 Not Good Enough ....... 118 The Food Cure ....... 120 The Trucks of Truro . . . .123 Poetical Economy ....... 125 8 No. i.—BIRTH The worldly child, who wishes to succeed, Must exercise profound pre-natal choice of proper parents is, indeed, A most important act;Since errors in the matter of selectionDo not admit of subsequent correction. So, when for future forbears you
Deportmental ditties : and other verses . ! . . . . . .105 The King and the Book . . . .107 The Devout Plover ....... 109 The Sins of Sobriety ...... Ill Empire Day in Battersea ...... 113 Too Old at Thirty ....... 115 Not Good Enough ....... 118 The Food Cure ....... 120 The Trucks of Truro . . . .123 Poetical Economy ....... 125 8 No. i.—BIRTH The worldly child, who wishes to succeed, Must exercise profound pre-natal choice of proper parents is, indeed, A most important act;Since errors in the matter of selectionDo not admit of subsequent correction. So, when for future forbears you arrange,Be sure you get a father that will suit;Kemember, please, that you can never change, Nor find a substitute;For if you are dissatisfied with Mother,You cannot send her back and have another. The thoughtful babe invariably takes The verj greatest pains about his birth,And shows intense discretion when he makes His advent upon dont arrive too early in the morning,Nor yet omit to give sufficient warning. 9. Deportmental Ditties And when in Nurses elbow you are placed, Dont pucker up your brow and whimper, please;But bow to her politely from the waist, This puts her at her ease.(Keserve your smiles till later, lest she questionThe soundness of your infantile digestion.) Once having condescended to appear, Embrace the first occasion to discloseThe gratifying fact that you (poor dear!) Have got your fathers thus avert ill-timed recriminationsBetween your two most intimate relations. A schoolfellow of mine had sable hair— Coal-black, indeed, it might almost be called;His mother, on the other hand, was fair, His father nearly please them both, this tactful little fellowShaved half his head, and dyed the remnant yellow! A youthful Jewess, too, I used to know, Whose nasal profile, like some ancient Greeks,Was straight and slim and regular, although Her parents both had child ! her brothers gazed at her with pity,Then, linking noses, hasten
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