Life's Lessons in Portraiture. |
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| "The Tables" |
backwards and forwards too
but I couldn`t remember 6 X 9
and I didn`t know what to do.
Till Sister told me to play with my
doll and not to bother my head
If you call her 54 for awhile
you`ll know it by heart she said.
So I took my dear little Mary Ann,
though I thought it a terrible shame
To call such a perfectly lovely doll
such a perfectly horrid name.
But I called her my dear little 54
for a hundred times 'till I knew
the answer to 6 X 9 as well
as the answer to 2 X 2.
Next day Elizabeth Wigglesworth,
who always acted so proud,
said 6 X 9 was 52
and I almost laughed out loud.
But Oh I wish I hadn`t, for teacher
said, "Alice tell if you can"
Then I thought of my Doll
and sakes alive, I answered, Mary Ann.
Iris Dodge Morgan