The simple life she truly leads,
She loves her small domestic labors;
In spring she plants her garden seeds
And shares the product with her neighbors.

By _Books and Authors_ now I see
In literature she's made a foray:
"The Yellow Shadow"--said to be
"A crackerjack detective-story."


CAPTAIN BROWN

Bluff Captain Brown is somewhat queer,
But of the sea he's very knowing.
I scarcely meet him once a year--
He's off in search of whales a-blowing.

For fifty years--perhaps for more--
He's sailed about upon the ocean.
He thinks that if he lived ashore
He'd die. But this is just a notion.

Still when the Captain comes to port
With barrels of oil from whales caught napping,
He'll pace the deck, and loudly snort,
"This land air is my strength a-sapping.

"I call this living on hard terms;
I wish that I had never seen land;