The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, Volume 1, Issue 3George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken Ess Ess Publishing Company, 1900 |
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Page 125 - I've met this beast in drawing-rooms, 'Mong ladies gay with silks and plumes. He looks quite bored, and silly, too, When he's held up to public view. I think I like him better when Alone I brave him in his den. THE BEAR I never seek the surly Bear, But if I meet him in his lair I say, "Good day, sir; sir, good day," And then make haste to get away.
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Page 126 - I've met The Puppy is the worst one yet. Clumsy and crude, he hasn't brains Enough to come in when it rains. But with insufferable conceit He thinks that he is just too sweet. THE KID Kids are the funniest things I know ; Nothing they do but eat and grow. They're frolicsome, and it is said They eat tin cans and are not dead. I'm not astonished at that feat, For all things else I've seen them eat.