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Show Rippling Rhymes by w f-. i iViHtur. i THE PELICAN. i Some pelicans around me sail as I wind up my lyre, that I may earn a slice of kale, to buy a rubber tire Th" pelican Is most absurd, It has no warb- ling skill; it is n bonehead sort of bird , that largely runs to bill. It catches fish before my door, by every artful i means, instead of going to the store (and buying canned sardines it hangs 'around in my front yard, close by Its feeding place, and doubt lers thinks an old fat bnrd should sing its oharme and grace I've witnessed many tin horn fowls in my long, sad career I've gazed on buzzards, crows ami owls. In countries far and near, Pve looked on roosters large and small, on mudhens and sucb things, the pelican outclasses all, for homeliness, by jing. And yet It thinks It's pretty fine, as graceful a-s a bride it stands befrre this hut of mine, and Berms to ;v In ' I with pride, Along the beach, and to :and fro, I watch its vain parades; as Billy as an ancient beau who ogles j blooming maldn It thinks It i a -hm ing star, pure radiance to spill; but, like 'he chap; who fix mj ear, it mostly most-ly runs to bill Copyright by Qeorge Matthew Adams |