HARRY TO MARY.
LOOK over my shoulder, and see what a letter
I've written. Could you have done better?
There isn't a place where a break or a pause
Isn't put, according to all the best laws.
For, Mary, a boy that attends the High School,
Shouldn't fail, when his chance comes to do things by rule.
My teachers have faithfully taught me the way,
And I have been practicing, day after day.
And now it turns out, as it always must turn,
That a boy who is faithfully trying to learn,
Will appear to advantage, whenever he's tried,
And can show his "well done" with a measure of pride.
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