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Rh It were vain to describe How he roared and he cried,
 * And howled like a miniature tempest;

Suffice it to say, That the very next day
 * He had all his teeth pulled by a dentist!"

This valentine made the children laugh for a long time.

Johnnie's envelope held a paper doll named "Red Riding-Hood." These were the verses:

I send you my picture, dear Johnnie, to show
 * That I'm just as alive as you,

And that you needn't cry over my fate
 * Any more, as you used to do.

The wolf didn't hurt me at all that day,
 * For I kicked and fought and cried,

Till he dropped me out of his mouth, and ran
 * Away in the woods to hide.

And Grandma and I have lived ever since
 * In the little brown house so small,

And churned fresh butter and made cream cheeses,
 * Nor seen the wolf at all.