A Book for Kids

A very charming gentleman, as old as old could be, Stared a while, and glared a while, and then he said to me: Read your books, and heed your books, and put your books away, For you will surely need your books upon a later day. And then he wheezed and then he sneezed, and gave me such a look. And he said, Mark--ME--boy! Be careful of your book.