Said and Did

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3 id="id01066" style="margin-top: 3em"> <i>SAID</i> AND <i>DID</i>.</h3> <p id="id01067">Said the boy as he read, "I too will be bold,<br/> I will fight for the truth and its glory!"<br/> He went to the playground, and soon had told<br/> A very cowardly story!<br/></p> <p id="id01068">Said the girl as she read, "That was grand, I declare!<br/> What a true, what a lovely, sweet soul!"<br/> In half-an-hour she went up the stair,<br/> Looking as black as a coal!<br/></p> <p id="id01069">"The mean little wretch, I wish I could fling<br/> This book at his head!" said another;<br/> Then he went and did the same ugly thing<br/> To his own little trusting brother!<br/></p> <p id="id01070">Alas for him who sees a thing grand<br/> And does not fit himself to it!<br/> But the meanest act, on sea or on land,<br/> Is to find a fault, and then do it!<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />