The Family Reading-Table

The Family Reading-Table.
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Father’s busy roading of “The Graft That’s All About”:
Mother’s wondering when the next magazine comes out;
Aunty hasn’t finished with “The Lifting of the r Lid,”
Little Johnny’s busy with “The Life of Captain Kidd.”
Grandma’s underneath the lamp with “Cities and Their Loot,”
Sister reads a poem titled “Justice Gagged and Mute.”
Far off in a corner with a book sits little Tim:”The James Boys in Missouri” is quite good enough for him. we
Uncle reads a paper on “Corruption in the State,” Brother reads a torrid screed on “Weakness of the Great,”
Grandpa has a pamphlet on “The Economic Stench,”
Nephew is engrossed with “The Debasement of the Bench.”
Sizzle ’em and frizzle ’em and serve ’em piping hot. What’s a reputation? They are guilty, like as not; Dust on Pilgrim’s Progress, for it isn’t much account.
Was it Pope or Shakespeare wrote “The Sermon on the Mount”?
-J. W. Foley