JUST LIKE A GIRL
-* V/hat a beautiful garden it's going to be ! ' • Said" Faith, as she planted her pansy bed ; • 1 With morning-glories to cover that tree, v And dozens of roses, yellow and red.' - 1 And;may be,' she added, the earnest thought Illuming the face that was sweet and fair, / Wo can make little nosegays of every • sort, For the hotel laiftes to buy and to wear.' 'That is. just like a girl!' said indolent Joe, As he spilled his sister's begonia seeds ; • But the worms will ruin the roses, I know ; And the garden -wiJl be overrun with weeds', 1 When the tenderest seeds decay or bake, And the others are all by the Leghorns scratched, You will find you have made a silly mistake In counting your clittckens before they are hatched/ ' What dire prediction ! ' said Faith, with a laugh; c Don't prophesy' further, I beg, I 4>eg ! For I'd rather count' my chickens, by half, Than to kill them all off'while yet in the egg.' "—' Catholic Standard.' • , *
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 37
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171JUST LIKE A GIRL New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 37
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