Show I aai IA A MYSTERY By DOUGLAS DOUGLAS MALLOCH I I l I-l-I I l I E I Iii i HAPPENED on a mystery Anyway It was to me On the blink bank I 1 found a book Down besIde a shady brook Yes sIr yonder onder by the crick Found a brown arithmetic How It got there hard hurd to tell Ia 1 Maybe be put there maybe tell fell There It lo lay a book ot of sums Bearing marks ot of smudgy thumbs Looking blankly nt at the sk sky Just us as thou though h It wondered why How It got there That to me me Also I is a m mystery tery Near It was ryas a fishing I could swear I saw It a pole Front From the hushes sticking out out- out It wits there without a 0 doubt Not a spilt bamboo affaIr Just nn an alder cut somewhere And It seemed to we me the lIne Wasn't sill silk but twine On the water seemed to toe me Something else that I could see Just u a cork a cork ark of brown Slowly bobbing up and down Its It's a mystery ns as J 1 sa say For Im I'm sure theres there's school today Q by McClure Syndicate rl |