THE LAUGHING WILLOW
Reading edition
OLIVER HERFORD
Apropos de Rien
THE
LAUGHING WILLOW
VERSES AND PICTURES
BY
OLIVER HERFORD
Author of “Artful Antics,” “The Child’s Primer of Natural History,” “Overheard in a Garden,” “Fairy Godmother-in-Law,” “Astonishing Tale of a Pen and Ink Puppet,” “The Confessions of a Caricaturist,” etc.
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1918, By George H. Doran Company
Printed in the United States of America
TO PEG
Oh, should some power the giftie gie her To see hersel’ as ithers see her, I’m thinking Peg would grow sae vain He’d take the giftie back again.