item: #1 of 13
          id: 11095
      author: Bonte, Willard
       title: Fun and Nonsense
        date: None
       words: 710
      flesch: 87
     summary: [Illustration: The Sailor Bold] OVERHEARD IN THE CORN-FIELD Said young Mr. Pumpkin, To old Mr. Squash, Do you think Mr. Corn overhears What we say when we talk Of his self-conscious stalk, And his moving Miss Melon to tears? [Illustration: Old Mr. Match] THOUGHTS UNSTRUNG Alas!
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: 20353
      author: None
       title: The Best Nonsense Verses
        date: None
       words: 8074
      flesch: 85
     summary: Said Jane, with a smirk and a blush on her face, I'll promise to wed the boy Who takes me to-morrow to Epsom Race! (Which I would have done, with joy). You are old, said the youth; one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose-- What made you so awfully clever? I have answered three questions, and that is enough, Said his father; don't give yourself airs!
    keywords: brown; carryl; day; father; good; green; lady; man; sea; sieve; verses; walrus; yonghy
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: 22818
      author: Herford, Oliver
       title: An Alphabet of Celebrities
        date: None
       words: 944
      flesch: 69
     summary: [Illustration] =T= is for =T=alleyrand toasting Miss =T=ruth, By the side of her well, in a glass of vermouth, And presenting Mark =T=wain as the friend of his youth. [Illustration] =H= is for =H=andel, who pours out his soul Through the bagpipes to =H=owells and =H=omer, who roll On the floor in an ecstasy past all control.
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: 26478
      author: Farrow, G. E. (George Edward)
       title: The Wallypug in London
        date: None
       words: 40999
      flesch: 86
     summary: By V. P. SELLS, M.A. _Illustrated. By M. M. PATTISON MUIR, M.A. _Illustrated.
    keywords: 8vo; author; baring; book; college; crown 8vo; day; demy; doctor; edition; english; esq; fellow; fish; good; history; home; illustrated; illustration; law; letters; life; m.a; majesty; man; mrs; new; oxford; party; people; putchy; rhymester; room; second; sir; thing; time; volume; wallypug; way; work
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: 27175
      author: Belloc, Hilaire
       title: The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
        date: None
       words: 1096
      flesch: 80
     summary: [Illustration] Do not as children badly bred, Who eat like little Hogs, [Illustration] The Polar Bear The Polar Bear is unaware Of cold that cuts me through:
    keywords: child; illustration; people
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: 27176
      author: Belloc, Hilaire
       title: More Beasts (For Worse Children)
        date: None
       words: 1091
      flesch: 78
     summary: The Porcupine [Illustration] What! The Scorpion [Illustration] The Scorpion is as black as soot, He dearly loves to bite; He is a most unpleasant brute To find in bed, at night.
    keywords: beasts; children; illustration
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: 27182
      author: Belloc, Hilaire
       title: More Peers : Verses
        date: None
       words: 1476
      flesch: 82
     summary: [Illustration] drowned in tears, On opening but confirms his fears: [Illustration] And _argued_
    keywords: baron; earl; hippo; illustration; lord
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: 30656
      author: Burgess, Gelett
       title: The Purple Cow!
        date: None
       words: 4517
      flesch: 91
     summary: O' course, her brothers they helped her, though, An' rolled the arms an' laigs out, so They all was smooth with roundin' bends An' _chopped_ An' when their mother had chewn the head, She went an' _stuck_ it on, instead!
    keywords: day; good; house; huldy; illustration; lark; man; right; train; wallie
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: 36321
      author: Graham, Harry
       title: Misrepresentative Men
        date: None
       words: 5083
      flesch: 82
     summary: While other men of note have had A certain local reputation, They never could compare with Pad,-- (Forgive this terse abbreviation),-- Loot: Orpheus may have been All Right; Cap: Paderewski's Out of Sight! (He was an Emperor, but then He had his faults like other men.)
    keywords: country; day; illustration; life; man; men; people; persons; tell; time; tis; verses; work
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: 36782
      author: Graham, Harry
       title: More Misrepresentative Men
        date: None
       words: 6716
      flesch: 76
     summary: Yes, _autre temps_ and _autre moeurs_, _Où sont_ indeed _les neiges d'antan_? Insisting, when he got a quorum, On _Pons_ (he called it) _
    keywords: astor; author; burns; day; ev'ry; hand; holmes; home; jamie; like; little; love; man; men; sherlock; thing; tho; times; views; wife
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: 45276
      author: Anonymous
       title: Dame Trot and Her Cat
        date: None
       words: 615
      flesch: 83
     summary: [Illustration: 0006] Next morning when little Dame Trot came down stairs, To attend, as usual, to household affairs, She found that the kitchen was swept up as clean As if Puss, a regular servant had been. Oh, what a strange cat! thought poor little Dame Trot, She'll break my best china and upset the pot; But no harm befel them--the velvety paws Were quite sure; the Dame for alarm had no cause.
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: 46691
      author: None
       title: Biography for Beginners Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples for the Use of Upper Forms
        date: None
       words: 1945
      flesch: 66
     summary: [Illustration] OTTO THE GREAT The great Emperor Otto Could not decide upon a motto. [Illustration] THE DUKE OF FIFE K.T., P.C., G.C.V.O. It looked bad when the Duke of Fife Left off using a knife; But people began to talk When he left off using a fork.
    keywords: author; hall; illustration; john; pizarro; sir; wren
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: 9380
      author: None
       title: A Nonsense Anthology
        date: None
       words: 47143
      flesch: 86
     summary: _He must be a fool indeed who cannot at times play the fool; and he who does not enjoy nonsense must be lacking in sense_. _WILLIAM J. ROLFE_.
    keywords: ahkond; anonymous; bird; blow; blue; bonghy; burgess; carroll; cat; charles; cheese; dark; day; dear; edward; eyes; face; feet; gelett; general; gilbert; good; gray; green; hand; hat; head; heart; herford; james; john; kind; lady; land; lear; lewis; life; lines; little; long; love; man; mary; mind; moon; mother; night; nonsense; nose; nyum; o'er; oliver; red; round; sea; shall; sing; song; soul; sun; swat; tail; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; toes; tree; verses; water; way; white; words
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