Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made

by James Dabney McCabe

Why girls so young should be so serious.

They knew the length of Plato's beard,

And how the scholars wrote in Laturn;

She studied authors not so deep,

And took the Bible for her pattern.

And so she said, "Excuse me, friends,

I feel all have their proper places,

And Common Sense should stay at home

With cheerful hearts and smiling faces."

Mr. Fields has been a frequent contributor to his own periodicals, his latest effort being a paper devoted to personal recollections of Charles Dickens, which was published in the "Atlantic Monthly" soon after the death of the great master.