Explore "Visiting" by Gelett Burgess on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
When a Goop goes out to visit, / 'T isn't very pleasant, is it, / To hear him ask his friends for things to eat?
And to hear the little sinner / Say he wants to stay to dinner / Is a piece of impoliteness hard to beat!
"Mother said that I could stay / If you asked me! " is the way / That a Goop will make them ask him to remain.
It is better to be slighted / Than to stay when not invited, / For they never ask a Goop to come again!