. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland . Before a clock two figures stood, with cymbals and a drum,And one each hour went rub-a-dub, the other tumty-tum;These concerts, they would grumble, are too great a strain, we fear;Why, we re giving over eighty-seven hundred in a year IQ2 POEMS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES 193 ..,...?**? >M\\ ;•. KfnlU- BACK FROM THE CONCERT Mrs. Thomas de Catt—Were any gifts show-ered on you, after you struck the high C? Mr. Thomas de Catt—Nothing of value, mydear; only a bootjack, two bottles, an old shoe-brush, and three tomato-cans.

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