PRETTY IS THAT PRETTY DOES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 3, 17 January 1907, Page 37

PRETTY IS THAT PRETTY DOES

The spider wears a plain brown dress, And she is a steady spinner ; To see her, quiet as a mouse, - Going about her silver house, You would never, never, never guess The way she gets heir dinner.

She looks as if no thought of ill In all. her life had stirred her ; But while she moves with careful tread, And while she spins her silken thread, She is planning, planning, planning still - The way to do some murder. My child, who reads this simple lay, With eyes down-dropt and tender, Remember the old proverb says That pretty is that pretty does, And that work does not go nor stay • .' ' For poverty^ nor splendor. 'Tis not the house and .not" the dress That makes the sainb or sinner ; To see the spider sit and spin, Shut with her '■walls of silver in, You would never, never, never guess The way she ~ gets her dinner.

— ' Catholic Citizen.'