The Cockatoo

August 6th, 2007 - No Responses

Herford no. 9

“Good gracious!” cried Miss Cockatoo,
“Whatever on earth shall I do?
Bright colors to-day
Have gone out, and they say
High head-dresses now are taboo.”

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXIV, July 1912, no. 3, p. 479.]