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Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922.

By. Carolyn Wells

The Spelling Lesson

WHEN Venus said: “Spell no for me,”

“N-O,” Dan Cupid wrote with glee,

And smiled at his success;

“Ah, child,” said Venus, laughing low,

“We women do not spell it so,

We spell it Y-E-S.”