And all could laugh and spell and sing and play,
So that the coldest heart turned glad and gay.
Among the worthy families were, Schmidlers,
And Cockerills, and Watsons, Travelutes;
McKees and Severns, Koppeses, and Winklers;
Sedlaceks, Tatlocks, Websters, Keys and Lutz—
And teachers great like Shaner, Prichard, Barbour,
Charley Travelute and Lizzie Mohrbacher.
Blue Valley too, still famous from its grange,
Held many wizards of the spelling book;