```"Or more like a shaggy terrier
````Whose eyes are hid in hair."
```Ted only laughed at being teazed,
````And said he didn't care.=
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```"You ought to go to the barber,"
````Said Edith, "that is plain;
```For you look like a Shetland pony, Ted,
````With all that bristling mane."=
```But to himself he wondered
````If indeed he looked like that;
```And down in front of a looking-glass
````Reflectively he sat.=
```A pair of his mother's scissors
````Lay on the mantel-shelf,
```And he thought, "I hate a barber's chair,
````I can cut it off myself"=
```So, snipping, snipping, snipping,
````The cold keen scissors sped,
```Till one whole side of his little pate
````Was bald as the baby's head.=
```Just then the tea bell, ringing
````Its cheery call, he heard;
```And he glanced at the uncut side, and said,
````"I can do that afterward."=
```Think what a funny topknot
````For company to see,
```Brown elf-locks covering half, and half
````As bare as bare could be!=
```As he seated himself at table,
````Merrily laughed each one;
```And mamma cried, in droll dismay,
````"My boy, what have you done?"=
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--MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES.
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