And carted or carried on "wafts" away,

Nor ever again trotted out—ah me!

How much fewer volumes of verse there'd be!

Charles S. Calverley.

THE SHRIMP-GATHERERS

SCARLET spaces of sand and ocean,

Gulls that circle and winds that blow;

Baskets and boats and men in motion,

Sailing and scattering to and fro.

Girls are waiting, their wimples adorning