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Edith Matilda Thomas (Эдит Матильда Томас)


A Question of Spelling


They were looking through their book
  With pictures of the Zoo;
Both too young to read the text,
  But each the pictures knew.

Will was three, and Ray was five--
  And five years old is old!
When his wiser brother spoke,
  Will did as he was told!

"Look! I've found the efalunt!"
  "Don't say efalunt," said Ray.
Said their mother: "You should tell
  Little brother what to say."

"Don't say efalunt--that's wrong;
  It's efalint!" said Ray.
"Efalint!" said little Will,
  In his confiding way.



Edith Matilda Thomas's other poems:
  1. A Lack of Attention
  2. The Blessed Present
  3. How the Christmas Tree Was Brought to Nome
  4. The Firebrand (Northern Ohio, Christmas Eve, 1804)
  5. The Birds on the Christmas Sheaf


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