With a Tootle-ootle! _Oom_-pah! _Boom_-zing-zing!
Tootle-ootle! _Oom_-pah! _Boom_-zing-zing!
Tootle-ootle! _Oom_-pah! _Boom_-zing-zing!
And Oh! the pennies the people fling!
When they hear the tootle-_oom_-pah-_boom_-zing-zing!

Katherine Maynadier Browne

The Cautious Cat

by D.K. Stevens

A Cautious Cat
And a Reckless Rat
Went to sea with an Innocent Lamb.
They sailed in a yawl
With nothing at all
To eat but a Sugar-cured Ham.
The wind blew high
In a sky-blue sky,
At a rate they had never foreseen.
The wind blew low,
And the wind also
Blew a little bit in between--
Just a little bit in between.

Said the Cautious Cat
To the Reckless Rat,
Likewise to the Innocent Lamb:
"We'll tack this smack
And sail right back
To send a Mar-coni-o-gram.
For the winds might blow
Both high and low
And I wouldn't care a Lima Bean,
But I never can sail
When the ocean gale
Blows a little bit in between--
Just a little bit in between.

"Of course with me
You will never agree,"
Said the Cat to the Rat and the Lamb,
"But if you balk
You will have to walk,--
That's the kind of kitten I am!"
So they sailed right back
On the larboard tack
To the nearest port of call,
And the Reckless Rat
Let it go at that,
While the Lamb said nothing at all--
Said nothing--whatever--at all.

Katherine Maynadier Browne

THREE LITTLE BEARS

BY M. C. McNEILL

Three little bears came into the town.
"How do you do?" said everybody.
Their faces were smiling, with never a frown.
"How sweet!" said everybody.
The three little bears made three little bows.
"How very polite!" said everybody.
They bowed as boys bow in dancing-school.
"What airs and what grace!" said everybody.

One little bear had a little red coat.
"How smart!" said everybody.
One had a tippet all made of soft down.
"How cozy and warm!" said everybody.