Gave her a piece to learn to recite.

For three whole days we didn’t know

The piece she had given to Mistress Snow;

But on Monday morning Miss McHugh

Said: “Margaret will speak for the 2-A-2.”

Then Mistress Margaret Esther wailed,

And all of us girls in sympathy paled;

But all of a sudden she walked right out,

She tossed her head as she turned about.

She made a most wonderful Grecian bow