Page 26 - Adventures of Peterkin Paul

This idea Wits no sooner conceived chan lie tried it. Taking hold with both hands he gave one mighty tugT
But I don't think his. head would have gone quite in- And then his head was in the stone jar right snug.
sidt it And pfKir little Miltiades Peterkin t'aul
Found that, puli as he might, 'twouldn’t come out
at all I

Well, -it length young Miltiades Peterkin Paul,
Quite alarmed and bewildered, rushed out through
tilt hail,
Bursting “ ,l<> ^ room where the folks were all sitting;
And grandma awoke with a shriek at her knitting;
And father arose from his seat and began
Reassuring his wife, while Abiathar Ann,
And Benjamin Franklin, and-John Henry Jack,
They all of them laughed till their fates were black.

And he certainly looked very funny indeed,
Dashing madly al>nui at the top of his speedj
Till, al length, he encountered his grandmother's
chair.
When the jar broke in pieees, and all at once there
Stood poor little Miltiades, meek as a lamb.
( It was such a tight fit), had not just then his ear With his face all besmeared with the Raspberry Jaro.
Caught tilt sound of a footstep; and, starting with " O, dear m e i" cried Miltiades Peterkin Paid,
fear, 111 have had quite enough J am for one day, that's all 1 ”