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.