E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, David Edwards,
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
()
from page images generously made available by
Internet Archive
(https://archive.org)
| Note: | Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/littlebookofbore00herfrich |
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
A LITTLE BOOK OF BORES
By OLIVER HERFORD
LONDON
GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD.
All Rights Reserved
1
A Little Book of Bores
2A is the Autograph Bore
Whom Authors and Actors deplore,
Tho’ it’s evident quite
If the Dears ceased to write
They’d deplore even more than before.
3
4B is a Bounder blasé
Who likes to appear quite au fait;
He purses his lips
As his Rhine wine he sips,
Tho’ he doesn’t know Hock from Tokay.
5
6C’s a Critic. Far be it from me
With a time-honoured craft to make free.
All praise I accord
Good Critics—but lord!
What a Bore a bad Critic can be!
7
...