“A Russian Peasant’s Prayer for Bread.”

Six damsels, very sparsely clad

In white diaphanous confections,

Came tearing in and ran like mad

In many different directions.

“Aha!” I cried, “I think I get

The meaning of this scene before us;

The title of it, I will bet,

Is ‘Mouse Stampedes a Ziegfeld Chorus.’”

But my conjecture went astray—