Quoth a cat to me once: “Pray relieve
My suspense. What does eight from nine leave?”
Poor puss looked so cold
And so thin and so old,
I replied, “Quite a few, I believe.”
[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXV, December 1912, no. 2, p. 322.]
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Said a lachrimose Labrador seal,
When asked why she wept with such zeal,
“My tears are not lost,
In this antarctic frost:
To magnificent pearls they congeal.”
[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXIV, May 1912, no. 1, p. 160.]
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