this farm as well as Mr. Man does, if he should die to-morrow."




MENAGERIE POETRY.


"What I have in mind is told, in a foolish kind of a way, I suppose, by
Mr. Crow, who wrote the verses when Mr. Man's little girl Dolly wanted a
pet, and no matter how much she thought of one, if it died, or got lost,
the next that came along suited her almost as well.

"Of course I don't want you to suppose I think this is anything but
nonsense; but at the same time it carries out the idea of what I have
been trying to say," and then Mrs. Mouser repeated the following:

I once possessed an Elephant
Who fed on potted grouse;
One day I lost him, but I think
He's somewhere in the house.

[Illustration: The Delicate Pet.]

I had a Hippopotamus
Who really was quite slim;
He caught a chill, and so I thought
I'd best get rid of him.

I also had a gay Giraffe,