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 [Illustration: The Purple Cow!]

 Published by William Doxey, at the Sign of the Lark, San Francisco.

 Copyright.




The Lark Book I., Nos. 1-12, with Table of Contents and Press Comments;
bound in canvas, with a cover design (The Piping Faun) by Bruce Porter,
painted in three colors. Price, 3.00, post-paid.

 [Illustration: _THE LARK_
                _Book 1 Nos. 1-12_]


_NOTES ON THE BIRTH OF THE LARK_

_Boston Herald._--"The pictures and rhymes in _The Lark_ rank with
the most remarkable things done for children since the days of Mother
Goose."

_Boston Budget._--"_The Lark_ is a reaction against the decadent spirit.
It is blithe, happy, full of the joy of life and the Greek within us--a
herald of the dawn of the new century."

_Boston Commonwealth._--"Everything in _The Lark_ is clever--some, we
may be permitted to add, cleverer than the rest."

_New York Critic._--"The faddists have produced some extraordinary
things in the way of literature, but nothing more freakish has made its
appearance in the last half-century than _The Lark_."

_New York Tribune._--"It is perhaps one-fourth a monthly periodical and
three-fourths an escapade. _The Lark_ ought really to be called 'The
Goose.'"

_New York Herald._--"The current number of _The Lark_ is, if possible,
more curious, more quaint, more preposterously humorous, and more
original than its predecessors. It is entirely unlike any other
publication."

_Richmond Times._--"We do not understand upon what the editor of
_The Lark_ bases anticipation of interest and consequent demand."

_Philadelphia Times._--"The young men who publish _The Lark_ have ideas
of their own. _The Lark_ is smart and funny in a way quite its own, and
it is also capable of serious flights and of musical notes clear enough
to be heard across the continent."

_Cincinnati Commercial Gazette._--"The worst thing about it being that
it is all too brief."

_Jersey City Chronicle._--"Every line in it is well worth perusal."

_St. Paul Globe._--"_The Lark_ partakes of the prevalent temper of life
on the Pacific Coast, where the don't-care mood of the West takes an
especially sunny and cheerful turn, and life looks a bigger joke than
elsewhere in the Union."

_St. Louis Mirror._--"_The Lark_ continues to be odd and ridiculous. Its
humor is quite unlike any other humor ever seen in this country. There
are good men with good pens working on _The Lark_."

_Kansas City Star._--"_The Lark_ seems to have attained a distinction
hitherto considered impossible in the unconventional. It seems really
original. It succeeds in holding in captivity the unexpected."

_Los Angeles: The Land of Sunshine._--"It is unlike anything nearer to
hand than 'Alice in Wonderland.'"


#Lark Posters.#--The full set of Eight Posters for THE LARK will be sent
post-paid for $2.00. The Lark Posters are printed from wooden blocks,
all but the first two having been cut by the artist.

 May,  1895   _The Piping Faun_     Bruce Porter
 Aug., 1895   _Mother and Child_    Florence Lundborg
 Nov., 1895   _Mt. Tamalpais_       Florence Lundborg
 Feb., 1896   _Robin Hood_          Florence Lundborg
 May,  1896   _The Oread_           Florence Lundborg
 Aug., 1896   _Pan Pipes_           Florence Lundborg
 Nov., 1896   _Redwood_             Florence Lundborg
 Feb., 1897   _Sunrise_             Florence Lundborg


_Published by_ WM. DOXEY, _at the Sign of the Lark, San Francisco._




CONTENTS

DEDICATION.


  1. A LEGEND, Rare and Superfine,
     Cribbed, some will say, from FRANKENSTEIN,
     (It _is_ a little in that line).

  2. MY FEET; a Memoir, with a Phase
     Resembling some Equestrian Ways.

  3. TH' INVISIBLE BRIDGE; a sort of Fable,--
     Please understand, if you're able.

  4. THE RUNAWAY TRAIN; a weird Creation
     Of Fancy and Imagination,
     Meant for the Rising Generation.

  5. On CITY FLORA, semi-culled
     By one whose Fame was somewhat dulled.

  