he handed ma a match and said:
     “How does that strike you?”
     “It makes quite a hit,” I replied.
     “You’re no match for me” be continued.
     Alas I wasn’t - at the moment for I couldn’t think of anything to say, but a few minutes later I broke the head off the the stem and put it in a piece of paper in which I wrote
      “This is quite matchless: Nicht uahr? and you can’t stem its progress.”
      Back came his answer “yet it is a matchless, but you’d better stick around.” At the end of the first period, he nudged me as we were passing into room 7; I thought he had a note for me so I put my hand behind me; into it he dropped the matchhead! I thought I’d have revenge so after I had studied my History and German, I wrote the following note:
     “That you are getting heady,
     Must certainly be admitted;
     And I get very unsteady,
     When against you I am pitted.
     So thank you for this head