LITTLE FOES OF LITTLE BOYS.
“BY-AND-BY" is a very bad boy;
Shun him at once and forever;
For they who travel with "By-and-by"
Soon come to the house of "Never."
"I Can't" is a mean little coward:
A boy that is half a man;
Set on him a plucky young terrier,
That the world knows and honors—
"I Can."
"No Use in Trying "—nonsense, I say:
Keep trying until you succeed;
But if you should meet "I Forgot" by the way,
He's a cheat, and you'd better take heed.
"Don't Care "and "No Matter,"
boys they're a pair,
And whenever you see the poor dolts,
Say, "Yes, we do care," and 't would be
"Great Matter "
If our lives should be spoiled by small faults.
—Harper's Young People