hen birthdays come, we always write
our names upon the nursery door,
and carefully we mark the height,
------------------------each standing shoeless on the floor.
------------------------how strange to think birthdays will be
------------------------when we shall never add one more
------------------------to all those marks which gradually
------------------------are climbing up the nursery door!


Chatterbox, 1905. Halfpenny weekly paper for older children founded
in 1866 by J. Erskine Clarke, which ran for some 90 years in the U.K.