“Why, it isn’t anything like the sea!”

Then he painted a stretch of hot, brown sand,

With a big hotel on either hand

And a handsome pavilion for the band—

Not a sign of the water to be seen

Except one faint little streak of green.

“What a perfectly exquisite picture!” said she;

“It’s the very image of the sea!”

Eva L. Ogden.

IN PHILISTIA