His D was so hard to admit.
Would Dad throw the news — or a fit?
But Dad was okay,
“Next time? You will slay.
That dog took 12 years to learn ‘sit’!”
Congratulations to M. Leach of Groton, Massachusetts, who won $25 for this fun limerick describing Frances Tipton Hunter’s March 25, 1939, cover illustration.
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