RIDDLES

If it's fun to take books from the bookcase,

If you really believe it's worth while

To carry them out to the kitchen

And build them all up in a pile,

Why is n't it just as agreeable then

To carry them back to the bookcase again?

If it's fun to make marks with a pencil

In books that one cares for a heap;

To tear out the pages from volumes

One likes and is anxious to keep,

Why is n't it pleasure to put on the hummer

A magazine read and discarded last summer?