And see what she says; but, old fellow, when you speak of the star, don’t tell
As how ’twas the doctor’s lantern,—for maybe ’twon’t sound so well.
—Copyright by Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston, and used by their kind permission.
AN ORDER FOR A PICTURE
By Alice Cary
O good painter, tell me true,
Has your hand the cunning to draw
Shapes of things that you never saw?
Ay? Well, here is an order for you.
Woods and cornfields, a little brown,—