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 EIGHT O'CLOCK

BY MARGARET WIDDEMER

OF all the things the clock can say, And Tive o'Clock, and Nine, and Ten, The one I do not like Eleven o'Clock and One,

Is "Eight o'Clock,” that, twice a day, Why, nice “Perhaps-Things” happen then— The clocks and bells all strike. (" Perhaps” is always fun).

For Eight is “Time-for-School.” you know, And Twelve and Six go very fast, And Eight is “Time-for-Bed”; With “Things-upon-a-Plate,”

And when it strikes, you have to go— But soon as Seven hurries past, There s nothing to be said. You hear the clock strike Eight! Sometimes it ‘s “Circuses” at Two, So when I 'm grown and have my say,

And sometimes “Matigée,” And help to make things go, And Three o'Clock is “*Schaol-is-Through,” I 'm going to take the "Eight” away And Four o'Clock is “Play,” From every clock I know!