For I’d be in a sorry plight
     Since for wit in vain I have pled
     With this I’ll be a shining light!”
     I gave it to him after German recitation and just before History recitation started, he scribbled off with a rapidity that made me gasp, the following elegy:
     Here take my congratulations
     For you they’re certainly due;
     For of all poet writers
     You’re the best I ever knew!
     You can rhyme on anything
     And are good at sticking around
     In fact the best I ever seen
     Especially when someone intends to skin a bean.
     I started a poem but Mr. Lease came over and watched so I desisted.  Bill however managed to write this:
     “Stick around” said Charles.
     “And we will skin a bean,