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WAITING MARGERY.

With a gay little watch that does not go, So that the time she can always know-- For you never can be mistaken, I think, When a watch or a clock doesn't stir a wink-- Never doubting that he'll he true, Margery waits for Little Boy Blue.

Little Boy Blue walks in the lane, Beside the tailor's Mary Jane, With never a thought, when _she_ beguiles, Of waiting Margery's patient smiles. "For they always say men never are true, And _I_ am a man," says Little Boy Blue.

THE HAPPY FAMILY.

Mr. Dickens and Mr. Dan! Happier family never ran, Rushing to gladden a mother's heart, Than these two darlings, never apart. Mr. Dan is the house police-- With might and main he keeps the peace; While Mr. Dickens sits and purs, Man-like, among his worshippers.

THE HAPPIEST FOLKS.

I think the dolls are the happiest folks-- Nobody plagues them with practical jokes; They have a nice house, with a parlor-maid, And the rent of it never has to be paid; They wear their best clothes whenever they please, And have nothing to do but to take their ease.

MOTHER AND CHILD.

CHILD SPEAKS.

"That mother in the picture Never, never scolds; All the day her little boy In her arms she holds."

MOTHER ANSWERS.

"Don't you wish, my laddie," And the mother smiled, "That you were as gentle As that pictured child?"

BETTY'S ANSWER.

Write a letter, aunty, Say you _know_ I'll come To the children's party-- Think I'd stay at home?

Why, they'll have some candy, And some strawberry ice, Angel cake, I rather think-- Everything that's nice.

Say I'm surely coming-- They are so polite-- They might think I wouldn't If you didn't write.