aid the Pencil to the Slate,
'We've been strangers, sir, of late,
And 'tis many weeks, I fancy, since we met;
There was surely something wrong
To have parted us so long;
But if I've heard the reason, I forget.'
Then the Slate looked blank, and said,
With a voice of pain and dread,
'Ah, yes! for days we've both been in disgrace,
For Master Johnny Scott
Shunned the lesson he had got,
And used us both to draw a funny face.'
'Now, of course, I needn't say
That such deeds will never pay—
A fact which Johnny realises now—
For the picture that he drew,
With a sunny smile or two,
Was rubbed out with a frown upon his brow.
'And the teacher said that day
We should both be put away
Till Johnny understood his duty plain,
And that he now has done,
For I hear his laugh of fun:
The cloud has passed, and—here we are again!'
PUZZLERS FOR WISE HEADS.
16.—Anagrams: Names of Famous Monarchs.
- A deer next; lag at her.
- Real name C. H.
- Quiz! he bet an eel.
- A racer! Shut in foes.
- I. E. into tan tear me.
- Part coal E.
C. J. B.