The writer can practice on
different kinds of style, and can make his journal a record, not only of
events, but of his own progress as a thinker and writer.
SIMPLE SIMON.
[Illustration]
"Simple Simon went a-fishing,
For to catch a whale,
And all the water that he had,
Was in his mother's pail."
PRINCE CUCURBITA.
BY EDITH A. EDWARDS.
[Illustration: PRINCE CUCURBITA ON THE TRELLIS.]
Prince Cucurbita was very unhappy. His smooth, shiny face was all
puckered up into little wrinkles, every now and then a big sob shook his
jolly little person till you really felt like crying yourself at the
sight of him. Here was a prince living in a lovely garden full of birds
and flowers, surrounded by a large family of brothers and sisters, and
always dressed in a pretty green jacket, which could not get soiled or
torn. In spite of all this, he was not happy, for Queen Cucurbita, in
order to keep her children out of harm's way, had hoisted them all up on
a high trellis, and would never let them get down.
You may think the Prince might have been smart enough, or naughty
enough, to have jumped down when his mother's back was turned, but,
alas! how could he? for she held tightly to the tassel of his cap, and
his cap fitted so closely to his head that no effort of his was ever
able to get it off. Across the way lived another big family, the
Filberts.
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