. . .Red Riding Hood’s, too!) [25] This shows the bad wolf that came out of the wood, And proved by his actions to be robbin’ Hood.[26] [27] At this terrible tale Some readers will pale, And others with horror grow dumb, And yet it was better, I fear, he should get her: Just think what she might have become! For an infant so keen Might in future have been A woman of awful renown, Who carried on fights For her feminine rights As the Mare of an Arkansas town. She might have continued the crime of her ’teens, And come to write verse for the Big Magazines! [28]The Moral: There’s nothing much glummer Than children whose talents appall: One much prefers those who are dumber, But as for the paragons small, If a swallow cannot make a summer It can bring on a summary fall!

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