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Some minor changes are noted at the end of the book.
THE LAUGHING WILLOW
OLIVER HERFORD
THE
LAUGHING WILLOW
VERSES AND PICTURES
BY
OLIVER HERFORD
Author of “Artful Antics,” “The Child’s Primer of Natural
History,” “Overheard in a Garden,” “Fairy Godmother-in-Law,”
“Astonishing Tale of a Pen and Ink
Puppet,” “The Confessions of a
Caricaturist,” etc.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1918,
By George H. Doran Company
Printed in the United States of America
TO PEG
Oh, should some power the giftie gie her
To see hersel’ as ithers see her,
I’m thinking Peg would grow sae vain
He’d take the giftie back again.