BLOTTENTOTS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM

BY JOHN PROSPER CARMEL

If you've never made a

Blottentot

This book will help you

quite a lot!

PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK

Copyright, 1907, by Paul Elder & Company.

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.

These were made for Dymphna

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HOW TO MAKE BLOTTENTOTS

To make a funny Blottentot,

First take a piece of paper,

Splash on some ink, a single spot,

Crease, press, but cut no caper.

Don't crease exactly at the blot—

You'll have a fearful muddle;

Press gently, too, and not a lot,

Unless you want a puddle.

With everything we humans do,

Practice makes us apter:

So start at once, you'll find it true

At the end of your first chapter.

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A FLIT-FLIT FLITTER

In the realms of wonderland

Such flies do gaily flitter,

But when they're just a blot of ink

Of course they cannot glitter.

They flitter, flutter round about,

These Flitter-Flitter-Flitters,

O'er dewy flow'ry sunny meads,

The lightest, brightest critters.

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A GOBBLE-ME-UP

Weedy, greedy Gobble-Me-Up,

Your mouth is a fearful size.

Do you live on little girls and boys,

Or merely cakes and pies?

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TWO BUCKING NIGHTMARES

Two bucking nightmares ran out to neigh,

Thinking it night, but found it day,

So took to their heels in sore dismay,—

I'm 'fraid they still are running away.

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STRANGE BUT TRUE

Now it seems to be scarcely credible,

A difficult thing to think,

That such a strange grotesquerie

Was pressed from a drop of ink.

But word for word I tell you,

As true as word can be,

That in its making there was naught

But the blindest chancerie.

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LAW-MAKERS

Tom and Johnny Make-the-law,

Talkative and lazy,

Standing on a Thingumajig

Comical and crazy.

You are just a pair of Imps,

With but one leg that badly limps.

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MISTRESS NELL

Gadzooks, Nell Gwynne!

How did you get in?

Did you walk or were you brought

in your chair?

Your dress is perfection

To the smallest section

Of stomacher, quilting and hair.

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A PROFESSIONAL TIFF

Said Dr. Spindleshanks,

"I'll stand no silly pranks!"

"You're nothing but a prig!"

Said Dr. Funnywig.

Then, making each a face,

They went off at a pace.

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SAFE AT A DISTANCE

You big Bugaboo!

We didn't want you,

But really now that you've come,

If you keep far away

We'll permit you to stay,

Just as long you keep quite dumb.

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