“HORSE SENSE” in Verses Tense
CONCERNING WALT
Walt Mason is the Aesop of our day, but his fables are of men, not animals.
—Collier’s Weekly.
Much of Walt Mason’s poetry is of universal interest.
—London Citizen.
Walt Mason’s poetry is in a class by itself.
—William Jennings Bryan.
Walt’s poems always have sound morals, and they are easy to take.
—Rev. Charles W. Gordon.
(Ralph Connor.)
His satires come with stinging force to the American people.
—Sunday School Times.
Why do people ever write any other kind of books, unless because no one else can write Walt Mason’s kind?
—William Dean Howells.
His is an extraordinary faculty, surely God-given. Many a world-weary one, refreshed at the fount where his poetry plays, says deep down in his heart, “God bless Walt Mason!”
—Seumas MacManus.
Walt Mason’s contributions to the Chronicle have attracted the attention of English readers by their originality and expressiveness, and have brought him letters from Mr. John Masefield and many others. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle regards him as one of the quaintest and most original humorists America has ever produced.
—London Chronicle.
The author as “Zim” sees him
“Horse Sense”
IN VERSES TENSE
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by Walt Mason
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Walt Mason is the High Priest of Horse Sense.
—George Ade
Chicago
A·C·McCLURG & CO·
1915
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1915
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Published September, 1915
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Copyrighted in Great Britain
For permission to use copyright poems in this book thanks are extended to George Matthew Adams, and to the editors and publishers of Judge, Collier’s Weekly, System, the Magazine of Business, Domestic Engineering, the Butler Way, and Curtis Service.
To
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
CHRISTMAS GIFT
The gift itself is not so much—
Perhaps you’ve had a dozen such;
Its value, when reduced to gold,
May seem too trifling to be told;
But someone, loving, kind, and true,
Selected it—and thought of You.
The gift may have a hollow ring—
The love behind it is the thing!
FROM SIR HUBERT
I read Walt Mason with great delight. His poems have wonderful fun and kindliness, and I have enjoyed them the more for their having so strongly all the qualities I liked so much in my American friends when I was living in the United States.
I don’t know any book which has struck me as so genuine a voice of the American nature.
I am glad that his work is gaining a wider and wider recognition.
John Masefield
13 Well Walk, Hampstead,
London