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With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley.


(”The result of taking second place to girls at school is that the boy
feels a sense of inferiority that he is never afterward able entirely to
shake off.”—Editorial in London Globe against co-education.)


There, little girl, don’t read,
You’re fond of your books, I know,
But Brother might mope
If he had no hope
Of getting ahead of you.
It’s dull for a boy who cannot lead.
There, little girl, don’t read.