Dat fetched him—he shtood all shpellpound;

She pooled his coat-tails down,

She drawed him oonder der wasser,

De maiden mit nodings on.

William Allen Butler is remembered chiefly by his long humorous poem of Miss Flora M’Flimsey, or, as it is entitled, Nothing To Wear.


Charles Graham Halpine wrote in an Irish brogue the adventures of Private Miles O’Reilly.


John T. Trowbridge and Charles Dudley Warner are among the famous Nineteenth Century writers but their works are not adapted to quotation.