Tiger Tales #90 - The Wizard and the Princess Truella

The Wizard and the Princess Truella
By L. Frank Baum
Author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Secret of the Lost Fortune, The Visitors from Oz, etc.

Originally published 1913.

THE FORGETFUL POET
By Ruth Plumly Thompson
Originally published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, August 18, 1918.

The Forgetful Poet's Puzzles

Had a telegram saying nothing was wrong with our old friend this week and yesterday along came these verses, which I trust you can finish:

On Swimming

I'm old enough, I don't know why
I never learned to swim,
And this is one time that I wish
I weren't so awful ——

A bit more girth around the waist
Would come in handy now.
I've swallowed nigh the whole darn sea
And still I don't know ——

"Now lie back on the water, just
As if you were in bed."
I do it, and next thing I know
I'm standing on my ——

Upon the bottom—sure is hard
On me and my old thinker.
I'll never be a floater—guess
I'm cut out for a ——

The answers to last week's puzzles were: 1, scrub pine; 2, fir tree; 3, dovecote; 4, oven bird; 5, Major General Wood.

[Answers next time.]

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