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A Parody Anthology

BY
CAROLYN WELLS
AUTHOR OF “A NONSENSE ANTHOLOGY"





NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1919

Copyright, 1904
By Charles Scribner's Sons



Published, September, 1904

TO
MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

NOTE

Acknowledgment is hereby gratefully made to the publishersof the various parodies for permission to include themin this compilation.

The parodies from “Diversions of the Echo Club," byBayard Taylor, and Mary and Her Lamb, from “NewWaggings of Old Tales," by Frank Dempster Sherman,are published by permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin& Company.

By the courtesy of John Lane are included the parodies ofAnthony C. Deane, from his volume “New Rhymes forOld;" and those of Owen Seaman, from volumes “In Capand Bells" and “The Battle of the Bays."

Bed During Exams is from “Cap and Gown," publishedby Messrs. L. C. Page & Company.

The Golfer's Rubaiyat, by H. C. Boynton, is from “ABook of American Humorous Verse," published by Messrs.Herbert S. Stone & Company.

Staccato to O Le Lupe is from “Last Scenes from Vagabondia,"by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, published byMessrs. Small, Maynard & Company.

The two poems by Ben King are published by Forbes& Co.

The following are published by Charles Scribner's Sons:Song, from “The Book of Joyous Children," by JamesWhitcomb Riley; Home Sweet Home, and Imitation, from“Poems" of H. C. Bunner; and Song of a Heart, andGodiva, from “Overheard in a Garden," by OliverHerford.

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