FAMILIAR AUTHORS AT WORK
BY HAYDEN CARRUTH
Miss Tripp
Miss Tripp for years has lived alone,
Without display or fuss or pother.
The house she dwells in is her own—
She got it from her dying father.
Miss T. delights in all good works,
She goes to church three times on Sunday,
Her daily duty never shirks,
Nor keeps her goodness for this one day.
She loves to bake and knit and sew,
For wider fields she doesn't hanker;
Yet for the things they have I know
A-many poor folk have to thank her.
The simple life she truly leads,
She loves her small domestic labors;
In spring she plants her garden seeds
And shares the product with her neighbors.
By Books and Authors now I see
In literature she's made a foray:
"The Yellow Shadow"—said to be
"A crackerjack detective-story."