Little Wun-lee's father, Nang-Poo,
Let her do just what she wanted to do;
Made her processions with peacocky banners
In the most regal and lavish of manners.
Little Wun-lee's father, Nang-Poo,
Was a magician who lived at Foo-choo.
Now if you possess a magician of cunning
Nothing you want should be out of the running.
Little Wun-lee had all sorts of things--
Fly-away carpets and vanishing-rings,
Djinn as her footmen, and gem-spraying fountains,
And lovely snow-leopards from ghost-haunted mountains.
Little Wun-lee, combing her hair,
Saw a blue butterfly float through the air--
Saw a blue butterfly flicker and settle
On an azalea's rosy pink petal.
Little Wun-lee said: "By the MINGS,
_That_ for your fly-away carpets and rings!
Peacocks and palanquins? Powers and dominions?
I'll have a pair of blue butterfly's pinions!"
"Little Wun-lee," answered Nang Poo,
"That's the one trick no magician can do;
Never did wizard of land, air or water
Magic blue wings on a little white daughter."
Little Wun-lee, dainty and dear,
Cried for a day and a week and a year--
Cried till she died of a Thwarted Ambition,
And nobody cared but Nang-Poo, the magician.
Little Wun-lee, little Wun-lee,
He buried her 'neath the azalea tree;
And the burnished blue butterflies flicker and hover,
And the rosy pink petals fall lightly above her.
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A Bloodthirsty Critic.
_The Nation_ on _Saint Augustin_, by LOUIS BERTRAND:
"The student of Church history will do well to take Dr. Bertrand's
Life."
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[Illustration: _First Sportsman (on the way home after dinner)._ "HI!
LOOK OUT WHERE YOU'RE GOING!"
_Second Sportsman._ "LOOK OUT YOURSELF! YOU'RE DRIVING, AREN'T YOU?"
_First Sportsman._ "NO, I THOUGHT YOU WERE."]
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