Bib Ballads

<h3><SPAN name="RIDDLES" id="RIDDLES"></SPAN>RIDDLES</h3> <div class="cpoem1"> <p>If it's fun to take books from the bookcase,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">If you really believe it's worth while</span><br/> To carry them out to the kitchen<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">And build them all up in a pile,</span><br/> Why isn't it just as agreeable then<br/> To carry them back to the bookcase again?<br/> <br/> If it's fun to make marks with a pencil<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">In books that one cares for a heap;</span><br/> To tear out the pages from volumes<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">One likes and is anxious to keep,</span><br/> Why isn't it pleasure to put on the hummer<br/> A magazine read and discarded last summer?<br/></p> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/026.jpg" width-obs="484" height-obs="600" alt="" title="decoration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />