that does not sympathize with the unlucky and ill-mated gnome who was
"full of fun and frolic,
But his wife was melancholic;"
or with the small damsel in pigtail and pinafore who comforts herself at the piano with this engaging but dubious maxim:—
"Practicing is good for a good little girl;
It makes her nose straight, and it makes her hair curl."
The second kind of verse appears to be written solely for the sake of the accompanying illustration, and is often the work of the illustrator, who is more at home with his pencil than his pen. Occasionally it is comic, occasionally sentimental or descriptive; for the most part it is something in this style:—
THE ELF AND THE BUMBLE BEE
"Oh, bumble bee!
Bumble bee!
Don't fly so near!
Or you will tumble me
Over, I fear."
"Oh, funny elf!
Funny elf!
Don't be alarmed!
I am looking for honey, elf;
You sha'n't be harmed."
