THE LAUGHING WILLOW

OLIVER HERFORD

Apropos de Rien

THE

LAUGHING WILLOW

VERSES AND PICTURES

OLIVER HERFORD

Author of “Artful Antics,” “The Child’s Primer of Natural
History,” “Overheard in a Garden,” “Fairy Godmother-in-Law,”
“Astonishing Tale of a Pen and Ink
Puppet,” “The Confessions of a
Caricaturist,” etc.

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

TO PEG

Oh, should some power the giftie gie her

To see hersel’ as ithers see her,

I’m thinking Peg would grow sae vain

He’d take the giftie back again.

[CONTENTS]

THE LAUGHING WILLOW
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Epitaphs	[9]
The Truth About Russia	[11]
The Wedding Feast	[11]
A Mujik	[12]
The Cossack	[13]
The Three S’s	[14]
The Air Raid	[15]
Vale Diabole	[18]
The Wrong Floor	[21]
Marching to Berlin	[23]
Target Practice	[26]
The Sausage Balloon	[27]
Concerning the Crown Prince	[28]
Camouflage	[31]
The Tank	[32]
The Bird-Man	[33]
Frenzylogical Chart	[34]
Britannia Salvatrix	[35]
Father Wilhelm	[37]
The Touching Ballad of General von Beers	[40]
An Imperial Sneeze	[45]
The Rubaiyat of Billi Kaisam	[52]
War Relief	[57]
Summer Mass	[58]
ABOUT PEOPLE I HAVE MET
J. M. Barrie	[61]
The Horse	[63]
The Town Cat	[65]
Towser	[68]
The Oyster	[70]
The Mouse	[71]
PEOPLE I HAVE NOT MET
The Turtle	[77]
Michael O’Leary	[79]
Clorinda	[82]
Alcibiades J. Skinner	[85]
Eve	[90]
The Highbrow Hen	[91]
Sir Ippykin	[92]
The Psychology Cop	[95]
Phyllis Lee	[97]
Mrs. Seymour Fentolin	[99]
The Devil Among the Ladies	[101]
Spring	[105]
The Catfish	[108]
The Prodigal Centipede	[109]
A Ballade of Black Socks	[111]
OTHER PEOPLE INCLUDING MARK TWAIN
The Gentlemen of Letters	[115]
The Women of the Better Class	[118]
Mark Twain	[121]
Prince Pompom	[124]
The Serial	[126]
The Cloud	[130]

THE LAUGHING WILLOW

To see the Kaiser’s epitaph

Would make a weeping willow laugh.