She took a good half-hour to loose and lay
Those locks in dazzling disarrangement so!
Newspaper humor of this period included the Danbury News Man, Peck’s Bad Boy and Eli Perkins (Melville D. Landon).
Charles E. Carryl, though his books are called Juveniles, wrote delicious nonsense, approaching nearer to Lewis Carroll than any other American writer.
THE WALLOPING WINDOW-BLIND
A capital ship for an ocean trip
Was the “Walloping Window-blind”—
No gale that blew dismayed her crew
Or troubled the captain’s mind.
The man at the wheel was taught to feel