Will you believe, she never got a single answer right!

So for failure, on the record-book, her name, alas! was starred,

But was it ’cause, as Polly thought, the lesson was so hard!


[TEDDY’S QUERY]

One brother was tall and slim,

The other chubby and short,—

Teddy sat looking at them one night,

Apparently lost in thought.

“Mamma,” he asked, at length,