Should have shown;

I cannot sing

Where people grown

Can hear: if they hear now

Or even ever,

I may become

A Never-Never!”

“Oh, ho,” smiled Mary Frances, softly smoothing the little bird. “I’m so glad I haven’t told. I am certainly glad, dear little Teacher Bird—I don’t want you to be a Never-Never,—whatever that is.”

“Oh, ho! I’m so glad I haven’t told”