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 A Line-o'-Verse or Two

 By
 Bert Leston Taylor


 The Reilly & Britton Co.
 Chicago




 Copyright, 1911
 by
 The Reilly & Britton Co.




NOTE


For the privilege of reprinting the rimes gathered here I am indebted to
the courtesy of the _Chicago Tribune_ and _Puck_, in whose pages most of
them first appeared. "The Lay of St. Ambrose" is new.

One reason for rounding up this fugitive verse and prisoning it between
covers was this: Frequently--more or less--I receive a request for a
copy of this jingle or that, and it is easier to mention a publishing
house than to search through ancient and dusty files.

The other reason was that I wanted to.

                                        B. L. T.




_TO MY READERS_


_Not merely of this book,--but a larger company, with whom, through the
medium of the_ Chicago Tribune, _I have been on very pleasant terms for
several years,--this handful of rime is joyously dedicated._




THE LAY OF ST. AMBROSE

    "_And hard by doth dwell, in St. Catherine's cell,_
     _Ambrose, the anchorite old and grey._"
                             --THE LAY OF ST. NICHOLAS.


     Ambrose the anchorite old and grey
       Larruped himself in his lonely cell,
     And many a welt on his pious pelt
      