By Any Other Name.

First the teacher called the roll,             Clos't to the beginnin',         "Addeliney Bowersox!"             Set the school a-grinnin'.         Wintertime, and stingin'-cold             When the session took up -         Cold as we all looked at her,             Though she couldn't look up!         Total stranger to us, too -             Country-folks ain't allus         Nigh so shameful unpolite             As some people call us! -         But the honest facts is, then,             Addeliney Bower-         Sox's feelin's was so hurt             She cried half an hour!         My dest was acrost from her 'n:             Set and watched her tryin'         To p'tend she didn't keer,             And a kind o' dryin'         Up her tears with smiles - -tel I             Thought, "Well, 'Addeliney         Bowersox' is plain, but she's             Purty as a piney!"         It's be'n many of a year             Sence that most oncommon         Cur'ous name o' Bowersox             Struck me so abomin-         Nubble and outlandish-like! -             I changed it to Adde-         Liney Daubenspeck - and that             Nearly killed her Daddy!