Against All Precedent
She bad spent tliree years In college, and the lot of lore aud kuuwledge She had packed withln her cranlam was womli-i rully great, That she understood ustrology, mathamatlos, physlology. And the art of pastei palntlng, there U harilly Deed to atate. Uut she couldn't muke a biseuit, and hls lite no uihd would risk lt In making the attempl to eat her awful n pule pies. For she baked one for her brotuer, and to-lay hls loving mother Mourns for a son bo soon cutofT, and wafted to the Kk les. But lier homely oouslu Mary was exactly the coutrary, Though she didn't stand so very high In knowiedge or In looks, When lt curne to maklog dlnners, she was classed among the winners A ik! she's made a repulatiou as a queen of cunnlng cooks. Now lt happened that next nummer after slieM come back to "raommer," To the vtllage carne a fellow who was ruil of Ufe and dush, He wasonly 8lxand twenty, and had stock and bonds In plenty, While hls air was most dlstlngulshed as was also his moustache. He carne, he saw, he tarrled and in course of time he marrled - But It's only in the story book that worth's rewarded well, For he formed a federatlon wlth the mald of educatlon, Aud Miss Mary now Is cooking at a secondrate Hotel.
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