WITH PICTURES BY OLIVER HERFORD
THE snug little room with its brazier fire aglow,
And Piet and Sachs and Vroom—all in the long ago,
Oh, the very long ago!—o’er their pipes and hollands seen;
And on the wall the man-o’-war, and firelight on the screen!
Their flowered, bulging waistcoats that wrinkle when they chuckle;
The baron, much-mustachioed, and gay with star and buckle,
And bristling in a uniform as scarlet as his cheeks,
With choker lace beneath his chin, and splendid, yellow breeks!
The smoke drifts blue, and bluer through that window, all abreeze,