You see I couldn't help it--I was so chuck full of enthusiasm.

The poem begins like this: "'Twas a peaceful, summer night, When all the stars were shining bright, There came a rap on our house door Which made me leap from bed to floor.
To me had come a telegram From my old chums, Dick, Tom and Sam Asking if I had a notion To sail with them upon the ocean.
To skim along on waters blue--" "And then and there get seasick, too," finished Tom.

"Don't forget to put in about the seasickness, Songbird--it always goes with a voyage, you know." "Seasick!" snorted the would-be poet.

"Who ever heard of seasickness in a poem?
The next line is this: "And see so many sights quite new, To rest in quiet day by day And watch the fishes at their play." "That's the first verse.

The second begins--" "Save it, Songbird, until we're on the yacht," interrupted Sam.