Ye Jester
Reading edition
Ye Jester, dressed in cap and bells, With jokes adorned his chat, And every joke was all his own, And all his jokes were pat. No jokes were old in days of yore, No stories had been told, And so ye wit had ample scope His humor to unfold. Ye modern wit’s in sorry plight, Re-writing o’er and o’er Ye jokes that ancient jesters told Five hundred years before.
FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY BY THOMAS HOOD With seventeen humorous cuts drawn by ROBERT SEAVER and appropriate setting. Square 18mo, 50 cents, net.
The classic and pathetic ballad of the fortunes of Ben Battle is perhaps the most famous of Hood’s humorous poems. The seeming crudity of the laughable pictures heightens the humor of Hood’s punning verses, and the result is a holiday booklet which cannot fail to amuse.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF John Gilpin
BY WILLIAM COWPER
Together with some thirty-two original wood-cut engravings by Robert Seaver and a decorative binding in half calf, with paper sides, square 18mo, 50 cents, net.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 4 Park Street, Boston 85 Fifth Ave., New York
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