Scientific Oppertunity

The seedless apple, so they say,

     Will soon be here to greet us;

Which fact will lessen, we presume,

     The dread appendicitis.

But Johnny on the orchard fence,

     Where oft he goes to frolic,

Will still be twisted out of shape

     With early summer colic.

Till scientists go further yet,

     (We have some very keen ones)

And grow some apples fully ripe,

     Without there being green ones.

May 7, 1904