We meet ev'ry week to make surgical dressings--
And one woman does it dead wrong;
I watched her a day--then I just _had_ to say,
"My dear! If I may--that's too long!"
While I was explaining the teacher came by--
She's so cross that her mouth's just a _line_--
And found fault with me and my work....
After that
I'll mind _no one's_ business _but mine!_
To-day I was filling my neighbor's slow mind
With War-Garden ideas and lore,
When a dog I don't _know_ just _ruined_ mine--so
I'll not advise _her_ any more!
Then a talk that I gave to the Home Service Group
On "Waste" was _quite_ spoiled--though 'twas fine--
By my bread burning up while I talked....
After this
I'll mind _no one's_ business but _mine!_
At a lecture on "Hospital Units at Work"
A woman (who looked fifty-three)
Ere the talk had _begun_ started _crying_....
Her son
Has gone, she confided to me.
"But you should be _brave_ and 'buck up'," I remarked.
"And _yours_?" she asked.... How did she divine
That _I_ am not married?... Oh, well, after this
I'll mind _no one's_ business--b-but mine!