“Why do you still make cheese?” asked the fine visitors who came to see them, rolling in gilded coaches. But the cheese-maker had one answer for them all: “Because I have a head on my shoulders, and not a pumpkin.”


THE SPELLING LESSON.

The teacher sat in her high-backed chair,

Her chair so straight and tall;

Her eyes went flashing to and fro

Among the children small.

At last she spoke, and “Billy boy!

Now answer, Billy Bolee,