A line-o'-verse or two

Copyright, 1911 by The Reilly & Britton Co.

NOTE
For the privilege of reprinting the rimes gathered here I am indebted to the courtesy of the Chicago Tribune and Puck , in whose pages most of them first appeared. “The Lay of St. Ambrose” is new.
One reason for rounding up this fugitive verse and prisoning it between covers was this: Frequently—more or less—I receive a request for a copy of this jingle or that, and it is easier to mention a publishing house than to search through ancient and dusty files.
The other reason was that I wanted to.
B. L. T.

TO MY READERS
Not merely of this book,—but a larger company, with whom, through the medium of the Chicago Tribune, I have been on very pleasant terms for several years,—this handful of rime is joyously dedicated.