Looking Up

“Look up!” cries the optimist.

“Look upward!” shouts the revivalist.

And yet Robert Bailey was fined $1 and costs or ten days because he looked up while under the Stadium bleachers.

The police said there were ladies up above.

—Toronto Telegram.

* * *

He took her rowing on the lake;

She vowed she’d go no more.

I asked her why—her answer came:

“He only hugged the shore.”

* * *

A woman’s first kiss may be attributed to childish curiosity; her second to misplaced confidence; the others are just downright carelessness.

* * *