And cultivate the void;
One would not readily degrade
One's loveliness in any trade,
Only, of course, one must be paid
For being unemployed.
A. P. H.
SMITH MINOR PROFFERS A REQUEST.
(An authentic document.)
Will you please send me a fountain pen because nearly every boy but me has a fountain pen and I should so like to have one because I often want to write something outside and I carn't and then when I come in I don't no what it is and I miss something out of my letter then when I have writen my letter I remember what it was and genulry I remember it in lesons and when I begin to write my next letter I have for goten it and it goes on like that till at last I remember it and then some times I don't rember it all and that is why I want a fontin pen.