"Yes, it is too hard for me."
"Then this is the answer: I'd put my roasts through a course of Browning. I think that's pretty good myself. I shall have to salt it down to ask your elders. I'll give you an easy one now. Why do they call the man who drives the locomotive an engineer?"
Edna finally guessed this. "Because he is near the engine," she said.
"Good girl; go up head," cried Ben. "You seem to be improving. Now each of you try to make up a limerick and I'll do the same."
"Oh, we can't do that," objected Dorothy.
"Yes, you can if you try. I will give you a model.
There was a young person named Dorrie
Who said to her comrade, 'I'm sorry
I came on the train,
But I'll do it again
When Ben isn't with us to worry.'"
The girls laughed at this and set themselves to work to produce something of the same kind. After many attempts Edna gave this:
"There was a young man named Benny
Who said, 'Please give me a penny.
Some peanuts I'll buy
All nice and dry,'
But he didn't give us children any."