BANCROFT LIBRARY -o- THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA TO THE READERS OF "THE LARK WHO HAVE LAUGHED THEY KNEW NOT WHY, THESE INARTISTIC ABERRATIONS ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED. GELETT BUHGESS COPYRIGHT BY WILLIAM DOXEY 651 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO i 8 " CONTENTS j. The Story of the GIANT HORSE, 'T is quite Improbable of course. 2. MY FEET; a Memoir, with a fhase Resernblmg some Equestrian Ways. 3. TH' INVISIBLE BRIDGE; a sort of Fable, Please understand it, if you 're able. 4. On CITY FLORA, semi-culled By one whose Fame has somewhat dulled. x 5. The PURPLE COWS projected Feast; Reflections on a Mythic Beast That's quite Remarkable, at least. 6. On DIGITAL EXTREMETIES; 1 A Poem (and a gem it is !). 7. MY HOUSE and how I make MY BED; A Nocturne for a Sleepy-Head. To these,. 8. A LEGEND, Rare and Superfine, Cribbed, some will say, from FRANKENSTEIN, (It is a little in that Line). IflIP Once there wa$- a GIANT HORSED That walked through all the Town, A-stepping into all the Roofs, And Smashing Houses down! My Feet they haul me 'round the House; They hoist me up the Stairs; / only have to steer them and They ride me everywberes. / V never dare to walk across A Bridge I could not see, 'te afraid of falling that I should be ! There is a Theory some deny. That Lamp Posts once were three foot higf), I never saw a PURPLE COW, But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd I never HOPE to see one; rather SEE than BE one! d rather have Fingers than Toes}- I V rather have Ears than a Nose; And as for my Hair, I 'm glad it 9 s all there, I '// be awfully sad when it goes I My House is made of Graham Bread, Except the ceiling 's made of White' Of Angel Cake I make my Bed; I eat my Pillow every night! THE PECULIAR HISTORT OF THE CHEWING-GUM MAN. WILLIE, an' Wallie, an' Huldy Ann, They went an' built a big CHEWIN'- GUM MAN: It was none o' your teenty little dots, With pinhole eyes an' pencil-spots; But this was a terribul big one well, 'T was a' most as high as the Palace Hotel! It took ' 'em a year to chew the gwm / / And Willie he done it all, 'cept some That Huldy got her ma to chew, By the time thp head was ready to do. * * * # Well, Willie he chewed it for days V days; They brung it to him in gret big drays; An' fast as he got it good an' soft, Then Wallie he come an