Then suddenly the teacher cried, above the school room's din,
"Take that gum from out your mouth and put your feet right in."
The Tersest Bathing Suit
This story was told to the author by Mr. Marshall White, Evansville, Ind.
When to the seashore Robert went, with Ma and Sister Nell,
He met a wise professor, who soon taught him to spell,
Likewise to read of fairy lore and use a real steel pen
To write to his own father dear, who like most all the men
Must ever stay at home and work to earn the cents to pay