The Book of Humorous Verse. Various
Manila | Eugene F. Ware | 949 |
On the Aristocracy of Harvard | Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell | 949 |
On the Democracy of Yale | Dean Jones | 949 |
The Herring | Sir Walter Scott | 949 |
If the Man | Samuel Johnson | 949 |
The Kilkenny Cats | Unknown | 950 |
Poor Dear Grandpapa | D'Arcy W. Thompson | 950 |
More Walks | Richard Harris Barham ["Thomas Ingoldsby"] | 950 |
Indifference | Unknown | 950 |
Madame Sans Souci | Unknown | 950 |
A Riddle | Unknown | 951 |
If | Unknown | 951 |
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSE
I
BANTER
THE PLAYED-OUT HUMOURIST
Quixotic is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said; The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries, And every joke that's possible has long ago been made. I started as a humourist with lots of mental fizziness, But humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse; For my stock-in-trade, my fixtures and the good-will of the business No reasonable offer I am likely to refuse. And if anybody choose He may circulate the news That no reasonable offer I am likely to refuse. Oh, happy was that humourist—the first that made a pun at all— Who when a joke occurred to |