Wit and Humor of America, The Vol 04

<h2><SPAN name="VICTORY5" id="VICTORY5"></SPAN>VICTORY<SPAN name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></SPAN><SPAN href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</SPAN></h2> <h3>BY TOM MASSON</h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I turned to the dictionary<br/></span> <span class="i2">For a word I couldn't spell,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And closed the book when I found it<br/></span> <span class="i2">And dipped my pen in the well.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Then I thought to myself, "How was it?"<br/></span> <span class="i2">With a sense of inward pain,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And still 'twas a little doubtful,<br/></span> <span class="i2">So I turned to the book again.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">This time I remarked, "How easy!"<br/></span> <span class="i2">As I muttered each letter o'er,<br/></span> <span class="i0">But when I got to the inkwell<br/></span> <span class="i2">'Twas gone, as it went before.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Then I grabbed that dictionary<br/></span> <span class="i2">And I sped its pages through,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And under my nose I put it<br/></span> <span class="i2">With that doubtful word in view.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I held it down with my body<br/></span> <span class="i2">While I gripped that pen quite fast,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And I howled, as I traced each letter:<br/></span> <span class="i2">"I've got you now, <i>at last</i>!"<br/></span></div> </div> <p><span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_715" id="Page_715"></SPAN></span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />