Tiger Tales #83 - Supposyville Goes Tobogganing
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"Supposyville Goes Tobogganing"<br>
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By Ruth Plumly Thompson<br>
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Originally published in the Philadelphia <em>Public Ledger,</em> January 20, 1918.
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The snow is white and powdery on<br>
Each road and lane and hill, <br>
And gayly ring the sleigh-bells<br>
In our old Supposyville. <br>
Why, every day at 4 o'clock, <br>
Well, what do you suppose? <br>
Each lad and lass, each man and maid<br>
Drops everything and goes<br>
A-hustling to his Majesty's<br>
Great white toboggan slide -<br>
Sled strapped behind and in the mind<br>
To take full many a ride. <br>
Becapped and booted, sweatered, legginged, <br>
Ready for the snow, <br>
For spills and thrills, in daring, dauntless<br>
Headlong flight they go! <br>
The ministers all leave their books, <br>
The King takes off his crown. <br>
And now they all trudge up the hill, <br>
And now they all swoop down. <br>
And next a dozen take a header, <br>
Landing in a drift; <br>
For unexpected obstacles<br>
Give sleds a sudden lift. <br>
The Lord High Humpus of all Sports<br>
Keeps tally of the tumbles<br>
And way above the laughs and cheers<br>
His booming count-up rumbles. <br>
And those who for an hour have<br>
Kept right-side up with care<br>
Are given little prizes - pshaw, <br>
I wish that we lived there! <br>
A merry snowball battle brings<br>
The coasting to a close. <br>
Just nowhere in the world do folks<br>
Have finer times - I 'spose! <br>
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THE FORGETFUL POET</strong><br></font>
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By Ruth Plumly Thompson<br>
Originally published in the Philadelphia <em>Public Ledger</em>, July 28, 1918.
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<strong>Puzzles</strong><br><br>
The Forgetful Poet's discoveries were truly amazing. The two spies were spider and spyglass, the fish in a cage was a perch, the pearl a purl in a sweater, the wag not on a tail but on a wagon, the hammer that sang was a bird called the yellow-hammer, diamonds--baseball diamond and bat.<br><br>
His new verses are quite as comical as usual, but he never can puzzle all of my dears and ducks.<br><br>
<em>Wise Saws</em><br><br>
A horse that bit me,<br>
Yet who wore no bit--<br>
Another one who swam<br>
And relished it!<br><br>
I saw two other<br>
Creatures of the sea,<br>
Related to the sky--<br>
Besides a tree<br><br>
That did not grow;<br>
A moon that really shone<br>
And yet was nothing<br>
But a fancy ______.<br><br>
A sword, I saw<br>
With twenty million blades--<br>
Between two sheltered,<br>
Wooded forest glades.<br><br>
[Answers next time.]
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