Guy Wetmore Carryl,
How Little Red Riding Hood Came to Be Eaten
“ She might have continued the crime of her ’teens, And come to write verse for the Big Magazines! The Moral: There’s nothing much glummer Than children whose talents appall: One much prefers those who are dumber, But as for the paragons small, If a swallow cannot make a summer It can bring on a summary fall! ”
