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LIMERICKSTEXT AND PICTURES BY OLIVER HERFORD

TEXT AND PICTURES BY OLIVER HERFORD

The Conservative Owl

ACANARY, its woe to assuage,Once invented a wireless cage.The owl shook his head,“It’s a Great Thought,” he said,“But it’s far in advance of the age.”

ACANARY, its woe to assuage,Once invented a wireless cage.The owl shook his head,“It’s a Great Thought,” he said,“But it’s far in advance of the age.”

ACANARY, its woe to assuage,Once invented a wireless cage.The owl shook his head,“It’s a Great Thought,” he said,“But it’s far in advance of the age.”

ACANARY, its woe to assuage,

Once invented a wireless cage.

The owl shook his head,

“It’s a Great Thought,” he said,

“But it’s far in advance of the age.”

The Omnivorous Book-worm

QUOTHthe book-worm, “I don’t care one bitIf writers have wisdom or wit;A volume must bePretty dull to bore meAs completely as I can bore it.”

QUOTHthe book-worm, “I don’t care one bitIf writers have wisdom or wit;A volume must bePretty dull to bore meAs completely as I can bore it.”

QUOTHthe book-worm, “I don’t care one bitIf writers have wisdom or wit;A volume must bePretty dull to bore meAs completely as I can bore it.”

QUOTHthe book-worm, “I don’t care one bit

If writers have wisdom or wit;

A volume must be

Pretty dull to bore me

As completely as I can bore it.”

THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK


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