O PINO
What a bean-o!
when we printed Lady C.!
Little Giuntina
couldn’t have been a
better little bee!
When you told him
perhaps they’d scold him
for printing those naughty words
All he could say:
“ But we do it every day!
like the pigeons and the other little birds! “
And dear old lady Jean
“ I don’t know what you mean
by publishing such a book.”
We’re all in it, all my family
me and Ekkerhart and Somers and Pamelie —
you’re no better than a crook — !”
“Wait, dear Lady Jean, wait a minute!
What makes you think that you’re all in it?
Did you ever open the book?
Is Ekke Sir Clifford? it’s really funny!
And you, dear Lady Jean, are you Connie?
Do open the book and look!—”
But off she went, being really rattled
and there’s a battle that’s still to be battled
along with the others! what luck!