Samuel E. Kiser

“ That long-legged clerk to death and then the band
Would steal her, and nobody else would dare
To try to save her, and they'd run away
To where they had their cave, and keep her there,
And ast more for her than her folks could pay. ”

“ Kiser’s verses widely popular.
❦ “Mr. Kiser’s work is too well known to need praise. He is a popular favorite.”—Minneapolis Times.
“His many varieties of verse have made him a friend of every lover of poetry.”—Columbus Press.
“Mr. Kiser has that rare original wit that can turn the most commonplace things to laughable account.”—Dallas News.
“Few or none of the magazine poets excel Mr. Kiser in touching the chord of human sympathy.”—The Argonaut, San Francisco. ”

“ Popular Humorous Verse
By NIXON WATERMAN
In Merry Mood,—A Book of Cheerful Rhymes
A Book of Verses
"Nixon Waterman needs no introduction to the American public. One of our most natural and musical singers, his verses have been quoted in every newspaper in the land, and have gone straight to the heart of the great army of 'just common folks.' He is always an optimist. ”

“ To make her think he’s Mike from Up-the-Crick—
It’s easy work to spot these Johnnies quick:
They try to mash the chambermaids up-stairs,
And buzz the news-stand lady, and I s’pose
They think that we all think they’re millionaires—
Hello! There that sweet little actress goes. ”

“ But I’d drop dead again.
(From “Ben King’s Verse”) “‘Ben King’s Verse’ will be appreciated by all who enjoy good things.”—John Kendrick Bangs.
“Ben King’s verses may be recommended to those suffering from melancholy.”—The Chicago Daily News.
“Lovers of real poetry and of quaint, whimsical humor will treasure ‘Ben King’s Verse’ as a volume which can be read and re-read with pleasure, a companion for all moods and times.”—The Journalist (New York) . ”

“ Will fight like cats and dogs and both be sad.
But still there's one thing makes me kind of glad:
The long-legged clerk must stay and work away,
And, though he keeps pretendin' to be gay,
It's plain enough to see he's feelin' bad. ”

“ I’d like to bump my head against a wall,
Because he ain’t a pugilist at all.
I’ll bet he never even seen a ring;
He’s just an author that is writin’ books:
That shows that you can never tell a thing
About how great a man is by his looks. ”

“ The boss and that long-legged bookkeeper, too,
That you keep smilin' at—and after they
Was all down-stairs you'd holler out and say:
"Won't no one come and save me? Must I choke
And die alone here in the heat and smoke? ”

“ Get on their riggin’ and are fixed up gay
Ain’t much but framework when they’ve gone at night
And safely locked themselves in out of sight
And laid what ain’t growed on to them away.
When me and Mike, the porter, were alone
I got to tellin’ him about my thoughts—
Mike’s had two wives, and so, of course, knows lots.
He told me in a kind of sollum tone:
“Me boy, a woman cr-rathure’s like a shtone—
At laste some women ar-re—Whin dr-ressed they’re foine,
But whin they ain’t ye’ll ha-ardly see a soign
Av beauty that ye’d ta-ake to be their own.”
VII.
IT’S all off now. ”

“ A-motionin' for me to fasten it.
So then that long-legged clerk he pushed me back
And grabbed the shoe-strings that were hangin' down—
I wish I was the strongest man in town—
Oh, wouldn't I of let him have a whack! ”

“ Mike says it doesn’t seem to make them fret
When men get gone on them—I guess I’ll strike
Out bold, because it must be so, fer Mike
He’s had two wives, and knows a lot, you bet.
There goes that dude again, confound the luck!
I wish he’d get a telegram that said
Some chap was comin’ here to punch his head,
And he’d fergit how sweet she was, and duck:
Mike says that when a fellow shows he’s struck
A woman hardly ever raises Ned
Or seems to get to wishin’ she was dead—
Gee whiz! he’s went and give her chin a chuck.
XI.
THE Johnny’s went away that got so brash ”

“ The world is better—both happier and better—for such verses as these of Nixon Waterman."—Chicago Record-Herald.
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By FRED EMERSON BROOKS
Pickett's Charge and Other Poems
Old Ace and Other Poems
"Fred Emerson Brooks is a great poet and a genius of great ability. Humor and pathos abound throughout his poems, and many partake of the inspiration of the war-drum, but he is thoroughly at home in whatever strain of melody he chooses to adopt."—Atlanta Constitution. ”

“ By S. E. KISER
Ballads of the Busy Days ONE hundred poems representing the best work of this well-known poet. Many of them are humorous, some have a delicate vein of pathos that makes a sure appeal to the heart, and all possess that charming human quality which has made Mr. ”