TO BOYS.
Don’t think this work’s for girls alone,
For surely that’s not true;
It’s every whit as boyish sport
As anything you do.
And won’t the girls be pleased indeed,
When to them you present
As fine a set of furniture,
As if to a store they’d sent?
And you can good designers be,
Makers and painters, too,
The happiest little workmen known,
In your occupations new.
And you can play you’re salesmen keen,
When all your goods are done,
Or give them to your little friends,
For surely that is fun.
So now get boxes from the stores,
And fasteners, bright and strong;
Ruler and knife and scissors, too,
Will help your work along.