She had felt the sting of a walloping—she hath paid the price of her mirth!
Here is the tale—and now you have the whole of it!
Here is the story, well and wisely planned;
Beauty—Duty—these make up the soul of it—
But, ah, my little readers, will you mark and understand?
Anthony C. Deane.
THE LEGEND OF REALISM
THIS is the sorrowful story,
Told when the twilight fails,
And the authors sit together