R. Otway Prendergast.
Editor of Arch. Vulg. and Obs. Words in Prendergast’s “Rhyming Rumbels” (Oxford Press—out of print), author of “Wild Verses I Have Met” and “The Stanza in a Savage State.” Brentanos; each, $1.65 net.
THE GIRL AND THE RASPBERRY ICE
(THE FIRST RECORDED RYMBEL IN OUR TIME)
BY OLIVER HERFORD
ONE summer day in early spring—
How well I can recall
The falling snow—no, come to think,
It happened at the skating-rink:
It must have been the fall.