Author of Denslow's Scarecrow and Tinman, original illustrator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Father Goose: His Book, Dot and Tot of Merryland, etc.
Originally published in the Saint Paul Globe, December 13, 1903.
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THE FORGETFUL POET
By Ruth Plumly Thompson
Originally published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, February 13, 1921.
The Forgetful Poet’s Puzzle
The blanks in last week’s verses should have been filled in with deer, bear, horse, frog, dog, cat and whale.
This time the Forgetful Poet wants to know what letter is found eighteen times on every full golf course?
What is the cheapest patch in the world?
What soldier name for dinner describes a dog?
When the cat is angry it also describes a bowwow.
Can you fill in these blanks?
An amiable ostrich
Once went to a -----
Where she trod on the toes
Of the great and the -----
Till a young lady elephant
Snatched out a trunk full
Of plumes. Away home
The poor ostrich bird slunk full
(of sorrow).
[Answers next time.]
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