Flo’s picture was really clever. Though only a slight sketch, it showed a very good caricatured likeness of Patty. Her arms, abnormally long, were embracing the Coliseum, which, with a happy smile, was enjoying the occasion.
Patty declared she should keep the picture and have it framed, and Mr. Homer said she might do so, after he had photographic prints made of it for them all.
“The next,” continued Peter, “is a poem by our talented member, Miss Milly Mills. This is a most creditable composition, and quite appropriate to our paper. I think, to do it full justice, it should be read by its author. Miss Mills, won’t you read your verses yourself?”
Flattered by Peter’s kind words, Milly took the paper and read her own lines aloud. It was a really good, humorous jingle, and as Milly read it, each of the others felt surprise that she could do such clever work.
“A ROMAN COIN
“There once was a queer Roman boy
(Though equally queer he would deem us!)
A nice child was he,
Born 40 B.C.