And babies can't talk when they are so small."
"Then, mother," said Lida, "the kids nowadays
Are not half so smart in all of their ways
As babies who lived in the long, long ago,
For dear teacher told me (so 'course it is so,)
That Job in the Bible cursed the day he was born,
I 'spose like big Tom, when he can't play his horn."
Only Naughty Children See "Spooks" On Hallow'een
(Written for Aunt Winifred Broad,
Stockleigh Pomeroy, England.)
Witches and goblins, spooks and elves,