Even serious old Longfellow had
this feeling in his bones when he wrote
the immortal lines which all of us re-
call from childhood:
"There was a little girl
  And she had a little curl
Which hung way down on her fore-
      head;
  And when she was good,
She was very good indeed,
  But when she was bad, she was
      horrid."
  This is nonsense pure and simple
and even the most ardent admirers ot
Mr. Longfellow must, when they try
to make "forehead" and "horrid"
rhyme, admit that it was very poor
verse for the author of "Evangeline."
  Bret Harte flew off at a tangent
when he wrote about "Ah Sin, The
Chinaman," a nonsense poem that gave
"Bill Nate" his pseudonym.  Oliver
Wendell Holmes wrote "The Wonder-
ful One-Hoss Shav." Rudyard Kip-
ling is often "caught with the goods