THE LOST CAP

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 2 April 1908, Page 37

THE LOST CAP

He hunted through the library, ~ He—looked behind the door, He searched where bajby keeps his toys ' Upon the nursery floor ; He asked the cook and Mary, He called mamma to look, • ' He even started sister up' , To leave her Christmas boo~k. He couldn't find it anywhere" ~ ' - And knew some horrid tramp Had walked in through the open gateAnd stolen it, the scamp ! Perhaps the dog had taken it * And hidden it away ; Or else perhaps he'd chewed" it up And swallowed it in play. And then mamma came down the stairs, Looked through the closet door, And there it hung upon the peg, as it had hung before.. . And Tommy's cheeks turned rosy red, Astonished was his face ; He couldn't find his cap — because 'Twas in its proper place ! - ' — Exchange.