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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mythological Zoo, by Oliver Herford
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+Title: The Mythological Zoo
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+Author: Oliver Herford
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+Release Date: December 6, 2007 [EBook #23749]
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+Language: English
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+The Mythological Zoo
+
+By
+
+Oliver Herford
+
+[Illustration]
+
+New York - Charles Scribner's Sons
+1912
+
+
+Copyright, 1912, by Oliver Herford
+
+Published September, 1912
+
+
+
+
+To
+
+Elwyn Barron
+
+With Affectionate Regard
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+                   Page
+
+Medusa                2
+The Siren             4
+The Dolphin           6
+The Cockatrice        8
+Cerberus             10
+The Sphinx           12
+The Sea Serpent      14
+The Salamander       16
+The Jinn             18
+The Mermaid          20
+The Unicorn          22
+The Satyr            24
+The Gargoyle         26
+The Chimera          28
+The Ph[oe]nix        30
+The Gryphon          32
+The Harpy            34
+The Centaur          36
+Pegasus              38
+The Hydra            40
+The Hyppogriff       42
+The Minotaur         44
+
+
+
+
+The Mythological Zoo
+
+
+
+
+Medusa
+
+
+How did Medusa do her hair?
+The question fills me with despair.
+It must have caused her sore distress
+That head of curling snakes to dress.
+Whenever after endless toil
+She coaxed it finally to coil,
+The music of a Passing Band
+Would cause each separate hair to stand
+On end and sway and writhe and spit,--
+She couldn't "do a thing with it."
+And, being woman and aware
+Of such disaster to her hair,
+What _could_ she do but petrify
+All whom she met, with freezing eye?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Siren
+
+
+The Siren may be said to be
+The Chorus-Lady of the Sea;
+Tho' Mermaids claim her as their kin,
+Instead of fishy tail and fin
+Two shapely feet rejoice the view
+(With all that appertains thereto).
+When to these other charms we add
+A voice that drives the hearer mad,
+Who will dispute her claim to be
+The Chorus-Lady of the Sea?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Dolphin
+
+
+The Dolphin was, if you should wish
+To call him so,--the King of Fish.
+Though having neither gills nor scales,
+His title _should be_ Prince of Whales.
+While too small waisted to provide
+A Jonah with a Berth Inside,
+The Dolphin has been known to pack
+A Drowning Sailor on his back
+And bear him safely into port,--
+He was a Taxi-whale, in short.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Cockatrice
+
+
+If you will listen to advice
+You will avoid the Cockatrice--
+A caution I need hardly say
+Wholly superfluous to-day.
+Yet had you lived when they were rife
+Such warning might have saved your life.
+To meet the Cockatrice's eye
+Means certain death--and that is why
+When I its features here portray
+I make it look the other way.
+O Cockatrice! were you so mean
+What must the _Hen_atrice have been!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Cerberus
+
+
+Dear Reader, should you chance to go
+To Hades, do not fail to throw
+A "Sop to Cerberus" at the gate,
+His anger to propitiate.
+Don't say "Good dog!" and hope thereby
+His three fierce Heads to pacify.
+What though he try to be polite
+And wag his Tail with all his might,
+How shall one amiable Tail
+Against three angry Heads prevail?
+The Heads _must_ win.--What puzzles me
+Is why in Hades there should be
+A Watch dog; 'tis, I should surmise,
+The _last_ place one would burglarize.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Sphinx
+
+
+She was half Lady and half cat--
+What is so wonderful in that?
+Half of our lady friends (so say
+The other half) are _Cats_ to-day.
+In Egypt she made quite a stir,
+They carved huge Images of her.
+Riddles she asked of all she met
+And all who answered wrong, she ate.
+When Oedipus her riddle solved
+The minx--I mean the Sphinx--dissolved
+In tears. What is there, when one thinks,
+So wonderful about the Sphinx?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Sea Serpent
+
+
+O wondrous worm that won the Height
+Of Fame by keeping out of sight!
+Never was known on Land or Sea
+Such a Colossal Modesty;
+Never such arrogant pretence
+Of Ostentatious Diffidence.
+Celebrity whom none has seen,
+Save some Post Prandial Marine,
+No magazine can reproduce
+Your Photograph.--Oh, what's the use
+Of doing things when one may be
+So Famous a Nonentity!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Salamander
+
+
+The Salamander made his bed
+Among the glowing embers red.
+A Fiery Furnace, to his mind,
+Hygiene and Luxury combined.
+He was, if I may put it so,
+A Saurian Abednigo.
+He loved to climb with nimble ease
+The branches of the Gas-log Trees
+Where oft on chilly winter nights
+He rose to dizzy Fahrenheits.
+Believers in Soul Transmigration
+See in him the Re-incarnation
+Of those Sad Plagues of summer, who
+Ask, "Is it hot enough for you?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Jinn
+
+
+To call a Jinn the only thing
+One needed was a magic ring.
+You rubbed the ring and forth there came
+A monster born of smoke and flame,
+A thing of Vapor, Fume and Glare
+Ready to waft you anywhere.
+The magic Jinns of yesterday
+The wand of Science now obey.
+You ring, and lo! with rush and roar
+The panting monster's at the door,
+A thing of Vapor, Fume and Glare
+Ready to take you anywhere.
+What's in a name? What choice between
+The Giants, Jinn and Gasolene?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Mermaid
+
+
+Although a Fishwife in a sense,
+She does not barter Fish for Pence.
+Fisher of Men, her Golden Nets
+For foolish Sailormen she sets.
+All day she combs her hair and longs
+For Dimpled Feet and Curling-tongs.
+All night she dreams in ocean caves
+Of Low tide Shoes and Marcel Waves.
+And while the Fishwife, making sales,
+May sell her wares upon her scales,
+The Mermaid, wonderful to tell,
+Must wear her scales upon hersel'.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Unicorn
+
+
+The Unicorn 's a first-rate sort.
+He helps the Lion to support
+The royal arms of England's King
+And keep the Throne from tottering.
+I wonder what the King would do
+If his supporters all withdrew?
+Perhaps he'd try the Stage; a Throne
+Should be an easy stepping-stone
+To histrionic Heights, and who
+Knows till he tries what he can do?
+The King, with diligence and care,
+_Might_ rise to be a Manager.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Satyr
+
+
+The Satyr lived in times remote,
+A shape half-human and half-goat,
+Who, having all Man's faults combined
+With a Goat's nature unrefined,
+Was not what you would call a bright
+Example or a shining light.
+Far be it from me to condone
+The Satyr's sins, yet I must own
+I like to think there were a few
+Young Satyrs who to Heaven flew,
+And when Saint Peter, thunder browed,
+Seeing them, cried, "No goats allowed!"
+Although the gate slammed quickly to,
+Somehow their human halves got through;
+Whereat the kindly saint relented,
+And that's how Cherubs were invented.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Gargoyle
+
+
+The Gargoyle often makes its perch
+On a cathedral or a church,
+Where, mid ecclesiastic style,
+It smiles an early-Gothic smile.
+And while the parson, dignified,
+Spouts at his weary flock inside,
+The Gargoyle, from its lofty seat,
+Spouts at the people in the street,
+And, like the parson, seems to say
+To those beneath him, "Let us spray."
+I like the Gargoyle best; it plays
+So cheerfully on rainy days,
+While parsons (no one can deny)
+Are awful dampers--when they're dry.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Chimera
+
+
+You'd think a lion or a snake
+Were quite enough one's nerves to shake;
+But in this classic beast we find
+A lion and a snake combined,
+And, just as if that weren't enough,
+A goat thrown in to make it tough.
+Let scientists the breed pooh! pooh!
+Come with me to some Social Zoo
+And hear the bearded Lion bleat
+Goat-like on patent-kidded feet,
+Whose "Civil leer and damning praise"
+The serpent's cloven tongue betrays.
+Lo! lion, goat, and snake combined!
+Thus Nature doth repeat her kind.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ph[oe]nix
+
+
+The Ph[oe]nix was, as you might say,
+The burning question of his day:
+The more he burned, the more he grew
+Splendiferous in feathers new.
+And from his ashes rising bland,
+Did business at the same old stand.
+But though good people went about
+And talked, they could not put him out.
+A wond'rous bird--indeed, they say
+He is not quite extinct to-day.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Gryphon
+
+
+It chanced that Allah, looking round,
+When he had made his creatures, found
+Half of an Eagle and a pair
+Of extra Lion legs to spare.
+So, hating waste, he took some glue
+And made a Gryphon of the two.
+But when his handiwork he eyed,
+He frowned--and it was petrified,
+Doomed for all time to represent
+Impatience on a monument.
+Sometimes upon our path to-day
+Its living counterpart will stray--
+Columbia's Eagle strutting in
+An awf'ly English Lion's skin,
+With glass in eye and swagg'ring gait:
+Behold the Gryphon up to date.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Harpy
+
+
+They certainly contrived to raise
+Queer ladies in the olden days.
+Either the type had not been fixed,
+Or else Zoology got mixed.
+I envy not primeval man
+This female on the feathered plan.
+We only have, I'm glad to say,
+Two kinds of human bird to-day--
+Women and warriors, who still
+Wear feathers when dressed up to kill.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Centaur
+
+
+The Centaur led a double life:
+Two natures in perpetual strife
+He had, that never could agree
+On what the bill-of-fare should be;
+For when the man-half set his heart
+On taking dinner _à la carte_,
+The horse was sure to cast his vote
+Unswervingly for _table d'OAT_.
+A pretty sort of life to lead;
+The horse in time went off his feed,
+The hungry man was nigh demented,
+When one day--OATMEAL was invented!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Pegasus
+
+
+The ancients made no end of fuss
+About a horse named Pegasus,
+A famous flyer of his time,
+Who often soared to heights sublime,
+When backed by some poetic chap
+For the Parnassus Handicap.
+Alas for fame! The other day
+I saw an ancient "one-hoss shay"
+Stop at the Mont de Piété,
+And, lo! alighting from the same,
+A bard, whom I forbear to name.
+Noting the poor beast's rusty hide
+(The horse, I mean), methought I spied
+What once were wings. Incredulous,
+I cried, "Can _this_ be Pegasus!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Hydra
+
+
+The Hydra Hercules defied,
+Its nine diminished heads must hide
+Before the baneful modern beast
+Who has a thousand heads at least.
+See how in horrid tiers they rise,
+With straining ears and bulging eyes,
+While, blinded by fierce calcium rays,
+The trembling victim tribute pays
+Of song or measure, mime or jest,
+To soothe the savage Hydra's breast.
+If she please not the monster's whim,
+Wild scribes will tear her limb from limb;
+Even if charmed, he rend the air
+With hideous joy, let her beware;
+For she must surely, soon or late,
+Fall 'neath the hissing Hydra's hate.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Hyppogriff
+
+
+Biologists are prone to sniff
+At hybrids like the Hyppogriff.
+In evolution's plan, they say,
+There is no place for such as they.
+A horse with wings could not have more
+Than two legs, and this beast had four.
+Well, I for one am glad to waive
+Two of his legs, his wings to save.
+I'd even sell my auto--if
+I had one--for a Hyppogriff.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Minotaur
+
+
+No book of monsters is complete
+Without the Minotaur of Crete.
+Yet should I draw him you would quail,
+So in his place I draw a veil.
+O stars, that from Creation's birth
+Have winked at everything on earth,
+Who shine where poets fear to tread,
+  Relate the story in my stead!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Although it's comforting to know
+That Theseus slew him long ago,
+_We_ need not boast, we too could do
+With--well, a Theseus or two.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+The End.
+
+
+
+
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+<h1>The Mythological Zoo</h1>
+
+<h3>By</h3>
+
+<h2>Oliver Herford</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;">
+<img src="images/logo.jpg" width="100" height="118" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h5>New York - Charles Scribner's Sons<br />
+1912</h5>
+
+
+<h6>Copyright, 1912, by Oliver Herford</h6>
+
+<h6>Published September, 1912</h6>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h5>To<br /><br />
+
+Elwyn Barron<br /><br />
+
+With Affectionate Regard</h5>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>Contents</h2>
+<table class='toc' summary='Table of Contents'>
+<tr><td></td><td class ="number">Page</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#Medusa"><b>Medusa</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>2</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Siren"><b>The Siren</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>4</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Dolphin"><b>The Dolphin</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>6</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Cockatrice"><b>The Cockatrice</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>8</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#Cerberus"><b>Cerberus</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>10</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Sphinx"><b>The Sphinx</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>12</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Sea_Serpent"><b>The Sea Serpent</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>14</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Salamander"><b>The Salamander</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>16</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Jinn"><b>The Jinn</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>18</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Mermaid"><b>The Mermaid</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>20</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Unicorn"><b>The Unicorn</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>22</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Satyr"><b>The Satyr</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>24</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Gargoyle"><b>The Gargoyle</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>26</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Chimera"><b>The Chimera</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>28</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Phoenix"><b>The Ph&#339;nix</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>30</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Gryphon"><b>The Gryphon</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>32</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Harpy"><b>The Harpy</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>34</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Centaur"><b>The Centaur</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>36</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#Pegasus"><b>Pegasus</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>38</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Hydra"><b>The Hydra</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>40</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Hyppogriff"><b>The Hyppogriff</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>42</td>
+</tr><tr><td><a href="#The_Minotaur"><b>The Minotaur</b></a></td>
+<td class='number'>44</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>The Mythological Zoo</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Medusa" id="Medusa"></a>Medusa</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">How did Medusa do her hair?</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The question fills me with despair.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">It must have caused her sore distress</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">That head of curling snakes to dress.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Whenever after endless toil</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">She coaxed it finally to coil,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The music of a Passing Band</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Would cause each separate hair to stand</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">On end and sway and writhe and spit,&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">She couldn't "do a thing with it."</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And, being woman and aware</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Of such disaster to her hair,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">What <i>could</i> she do but petrify</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">All whom she met, with freezing eye?</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos1.jpg" width="500" height="494" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Siren" id="The_Siren"></a>The Siren</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Siren may be said to be</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Chorus-Lady of the Sea;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Tho' Mermaids claim her as their kin,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Instead of fishy tail and fin</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Two shapely feet rejoice the view</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">(With all that appertains thereto).</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">When to these other charms we add</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A voice that drives the hearer mad,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Who will dispute her claim to be</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Chorus-Lady of the Sea?</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos2.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Dolphin" id="The_Dolphin"></a>The Dolphin</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Dolphin was, if you should wish</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">To call him so,&mdash;the King of Fish.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Though having neither gills nor scales,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">His title <i>should be</i> Prince of Whales.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">While too small waisted to provide</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A Jonah with a Berth Inside,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Dolphin has been known to pack</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A Drowning Sailor on his back</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And bear him safely into port,&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">He was a Taxi-whale, in short.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos3.jpg" width="500" height="499" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Cockatrice" id="The_Cockatrice"></a>The Cockatrice</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">If you will listen to advice</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">You will avoid the Cockatrice&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A caution I need hardly say</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Wholly superfluous to-day.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Yet had you lived when they were rife</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Such warning might have saved your life.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">To meet the Cockatrice's eye</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Means certain death&mdash;and that is why</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">When I its features here portray</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">I make it look the other way.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">O Cockatrice! were you so mean</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">What must the <i>Hen</i>atrice have been!</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos4.jpg" width="500" height="497" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Cerberus" id="Cerberus"></a>Cerberus</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Dear Reader, should you chance to go</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">To Hades, do not fail to throw</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A "Sop to Cerberus" at the gate,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">His anger to propitiate.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Don't say "Good dog!" and hope thereby</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">His three fierce Heads to pacify.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">What though he try to be polite</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And wag his Tail with all his might,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">How shall one amiable Tail</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Against three angry Heads prevail?</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Heads <i>must</i> win.&mdash;What puzzles me</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Is why in Hades there should be</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A Watch dog; 'tis, I should surmise,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The <i>last</i> place one would burglarize.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos5.jpg" width="500" height="497" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Sphinx" id="The_Sphinx"></a>The Sphinx</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">She was half Lady and half cat&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">What is so wonderful in that?</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Half of our lady friends (so say</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The other half) are <i>Cats</i> to-day.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">In Egypt she made quite a stir,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">They carved huge Images of her.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Riddles she asked of all she met</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And all who answered wrong, she ate.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">When &#338;dipus her riddle solved</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The minx&mdash;I mean the Sphinx&mdash;dissolved</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">In tears. What is there, when one thinks,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">So wonderful about the Sphinx?</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos6.jpg" width="500" height="498" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Sea_Serpent" id="The_Sea_Serpent"></a>The Sea Serpent</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">O wondrous worm that won the Height</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Of Fame by keeping out of sight!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Never was known on Land or Sea</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Such a Colossal Modesty;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Never such arrogant pretence</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Of Ostentatious Diffidence.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Celebrity whom none has seen,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Save some Post Prandial Marine,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">No magazine can reproduce</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Your Photograph.&mdash;Oh, what's the use</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Of doing things when one may be</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">So Famous a Nonentity!</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos7.jpg" width="500" height="498" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Salamander" id="The_Salamander"></a>The Salamander</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Salamander made his bed</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Among the glowing embers red.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A Fiery Furnace, to his mind,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Hygiene and Luxury combined.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">He was, if I may put it so,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A Saurian Abednigo.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">He loved to climb with nimble ease</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The branches of the Gas-log Trees</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Where oft on chilly winter nights</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">He rose to dizzy Fahrenheits.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Believers in Soul Transmigration</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">See in him the Re-incarnation</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Of those Sad Plagues of summer, who</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Ask, "Is it hot enough for you?"</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos8.jpg" width="500" height="498" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Jinn" id="The_Jinn"></a>The Jinn</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">To call a Jinn the only thing</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">One needed was a magic ring.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">You rubbed the ring and forth there came</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A monster born of smoke and flame,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A thing of Vapor, Fume and Glare</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Ready to waft you anywhere.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The magic Jinns of yesterday</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The wand of Science now obey.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">You ring, and lo! with rush and roar</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The panting monster's at the door,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A thing of Vapor, Fume and Glare</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Ready to take you anywhere.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">What's in a name? What choice between</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Giants, Jinn and Gasolene?</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos9.jpg" width="500" height="502" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Mermaid" id="The_Mermaid"></a>The Mermaid</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Although a Fishwife in a sense,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">She does not barter Fish for Pence.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Fisher of Men, her Golden Nets</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">For foolish Sailormen she sets.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">All day she combs her hair and longs</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">For Dimpled Feet and Curling-tongs.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">All night she dreams in ocean caves</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Of Low tide Shoes and Marcel Waves.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And while the Fishwife, making sales,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">May sell her wares upon her scales,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Mermaid, wonderful to tell,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Must wear her scales upon hersel'.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos10.jpg" width="500" height="497" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Unicorn" id="The_Unicorn"></a>The Unicorn</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Unicorn 's a first-rate sort.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">He helps the Lion to support</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The royal arms of England's King</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And keep the Throne from tottering.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">I wonder what the King would do</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">If his supporters all withdrew?</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Perhaps he'd try the Stage; a Throne</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Should be an easy stepping-stone</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">To histrionic Heights, and who</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Knows till he tries what he can do?</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The King, with diligence and care,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><i>Might</i> rise to be a Manager.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos11.jpg" width="500" height="496" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Satyr" id="The_Satyr"></a>The Satyr</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Satyr lived in times remote,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A shape half-human and half-goat,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Who, having all Man's faults combined</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">With a Goat's nature unrefined,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Was not what you would call a bright</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Example or a shining light.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Far be it from me to condone</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Satyr's sins, yet I must own</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">I like to think there were a few</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Young Satyrs who to Heaven flew,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And when Saint Peter, thunder browed,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Seeing them, cried, "No goats allowed!"</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Although the gate slammed quickly to,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Somehow their human halves got through;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Whereat the kindly saint relented,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And that's how Cherubs were invented.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos12.jpg" width="500" height="496" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Gargoyle" id="The_Gargoyle"></a>The Gargoyle</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Gargoyle often makes its perch</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">On a cathedral or a church,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Where, mid ecclesiastic style,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">It smiles an early-Gothic smile.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And while the parson, dignified,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Spouts at his weary flock inside,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Gargoyle, from its lofty seat,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Spouts at the people in the street,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And, like the parson, seems to say</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">To those beneath him, "Let us spray."</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">I like the Gargoyle best; it plays</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">So cheerfully on rainy days,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">While parsons (no one can deny)</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Are awful dampers&mdash;when they're dry.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos13.jpg" width="500" height="494" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Chimera" id="The_Chimera"></a>The Chimera</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">You'd think a lion or a snake</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Were quite enough one's nerves to shake;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">But in this classic beast we find</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A lion and a snake combined,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And, just as if that weren't enough,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A goat thrown in to make it tough.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Let scientists the breed pooh! pooh!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Come with me to some Social Zoo</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And hear the bearded Lion bleat</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Goat-like on patent-kidded feet,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Whose "Civil leer and damning praise"</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The serpent's cloven tongue betrays.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Lo! lion, goat, and snake combined!</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Thus Nature doth repeat her kind.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos14.jpg" width="500" height="497" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Phoenix" id="The_Phoenix"></a>The Ph&#339;nix</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Ph&#339;nix was, as you might say,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The burning question of his day:</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The more he burned, the more he grew</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Splendiferous in feathers new.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And from his ashes rising bland,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Did business at the same old stand.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">But though good people went about</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And talked, they could not put him out.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A wond'rous bird&mdash;indeed, they say</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">He is not quite extinct to-day.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos15.jpg" width="500" height="520" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Gryphon" id="The_Gryphon"></a>The Gryphon</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">It chanced that Allah, looking round,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">When he had made his creatures, found</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Half of an Eagle and a pair</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Of extra Lion legs to spare.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">So, hating waste, he took some glue</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And made a Gryphon of the two.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">But when his handiwork he eyed,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">He frowned&mdash;and it was petrified,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Doomed for all time to represent</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Impatience on a monument.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Sometimes upon our path to-day</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Its living counterpart will stray&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Columbia's Eagle strutting in</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">An awf'ly English Lion's skin,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">With glass in eye and swagg'ring gait:</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Behold the Gryphon up to date.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos16.jpg" width="500" height="504" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Harpy" id="The_Harpy"></a>The Harpy</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">They certainly contrived to raise</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Queer ladies in the olden days.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Either the type had not been fixed,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Or else Zoology got mixed.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">I envy not primeval man</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">This female on the feathered plan.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">We only have, I'm glad to say,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Two kinds of human bird to-day&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Women and warriors, who still</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Wear feathers when dressed up to kill.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos17.jpg" width="500" height="493" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Centaur" id="The_Centaur"></a>The Centaur</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Centaur led a double life:</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Two natures in perpetual strife</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">He had, that never could agree</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">On what the bill-of-fare should be;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">For when the man-half set his heart</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">On taking dinner <i>&agrave; la carte</i>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The horse was sure to cast his vote</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Unswervingly for <i>table d'OAT</i>.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A pretty sort of life to lead;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The horse in time went off his feed,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The hungry man was nigh demented,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">When one day&mdash;<span class="smcap">oatmeal</span> was invented!</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos18.jpg" width="500" height="499" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Pegasus" id="Pegasus"></a>Pegasus</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The ancients made no end of fuss</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">About a horse named Pegasus,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A famous flyer of his time,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Who often soared to heights sublime,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">When backed by some poetic chap</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">For the Parnassus Handicap.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Alas for fame! The other day</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">I saw an ancient "one-hoss shay"</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Stop at the Mont de Pi&eacute;t&eacute;,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">And, lo! alighting from the same,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A bard, whom I forbear to name.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Noting the poor beast's rusty hide</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">(The horse, I mean), methought I spied</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">What once were wings. Incredulous,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">I cried, "Can <i>this</i> be Pegasus!"</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos19.jpg" width="500" height="497" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Hydra" id="The_Hydra"></a>The Hydra</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">The Hydra Hercules defied,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Its nine diminished heads must hide</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Before the baneful modern beast</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Who has a thousand heads at least.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">See how in horrid tiers they rise,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">With straining ears and bulging eyes,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">While, blinded by fierce calcium rays,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">The trembling victim tribute pays</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Of song or measure, mime or jest,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">To soothe the savage Hydra's breast.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">If she please not the monster's whim,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Wild scribes will tear her limb from limb;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Even if charmed, he rend the air</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">With hideous joy, let her beware;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">For she must surely, soon or late,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Fall 'neath the hissing Hydra's hate.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos20.jpg" width="500" height="501" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Hyppogriff" id="The_Hyppogriff"></a>The Hyppogriff</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">Biologists are prone to sniff</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">At hybrids like the Hyppogriff.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">In evolution's plan, they say,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">There is no place for such as they.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">A horse with wings could not have more</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Than two legs, and this beast had four.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Well, I for one am glad to waive</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Two of his legs, his wings to save.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">I'd even sell my auto&mdash;if</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">I had one&mdash;for a Hyppogriff.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos21.jpg" width="500" height="502" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Minotaur" id="The_Minotaur"></a>The Minotaur</h2>
+
+
+<div class="cpoem">
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;">No book of monsters is complete</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Without the Minotaur of Crete.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Yet should I draw him you would quail,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">So in his place I draw a veil.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">O stars, that from Creation's birth</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Have winked at everything on earth,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Who shine where poets fear to tread,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 8em;">Relate the story in my stead!</span><br /><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*</span><br /><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Although it's comforting to know</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">That Theseus slew him long ago,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><i>We</i> need not boast, we too could do</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">With&mdash;well, a Theseus or two.</span><br />
+</p></div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/illos22.jpg" width="500" height="501" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><br /><br />The End.</h2>
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mythological Zoo, by Oliver Herford
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Mythological Zoo
+
+Author: Oliver Herford
+
+Release Date: December 6, 2007 [EBook #23749]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MYTHOLOGICAL ZOO ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
+produced from images generously made available by The
+Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+The Mythological Zoo
+
+By
+
+Oliver Herford
+
+[Illustration]
+
+New York - Charles Scribner's Sons
+1912
+
+
+Copyright, 1912, by Oliver Herford
+
+Published September, 1912
+
+
+
+
+To
+
+Elwyn Barron
+
+With Affectionate Regard
+
+
+
+
+Contents
+
+                   Page
+
+Medusa                2
+The Siren             4
+The Dolphin           6
+The Cockatrice        8
+Cerberus             10
+The Sphinx           12
+The Sea Serpent      14
+The Salamander       16
+The Jinn             18
+The Mermaid          20
+The Unicorn          22
+The Satyr            24
+The Gargoyle         26
+The Chimera          28
+The Ph[oe]nix        30
+The Gryphon          32
+The Harpy            34
+The Centaur          36
+Pegasus              38
+The Hydra            40
+The Hyppogriff       42
+The Minotaur         44
+
+
+
+
+The Mythological Zoo
+
+
+
+
+Medusa
+
+
+How did Medusa do her hair?
+The question fills me with despair.
+It must have caused her sore distress
+That head of curling snakes to dress.
+Whenever after endless toil
+She coaxed it finally to coil,
+The music of a Passing Band
+Would cause each separate hair to stand
+On end and sway and writhe and spit,--
+She couldn't "do a thing with it."
+And, being woman and aware
+Of such disaster to her hair,
+What _could_ she do but petrify
+All whom she met, with freezing eye?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Siren
+
+
+The Siren may be said to be
+The Chorus-Lady of the Sea;
+Tho' Mermaids claim her as their kin,
+Instead of fishy tail and fin
+Two shapely feet rejoice the view
+(With all that appertains thereto).
+When to these other charms we add
+A voice that drives the hearer mad,
+Who will dispute her claim to be
+The Chorus-Lady of the Sea?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Dolphin
+
+
+The Dolphin was, if you should wish
+To call him so,--the King of Fish.
+Though having neither gills nor scales,
+His title _should be_ Prince of Whales.
+While too small waisted to provide
+A Jonah with a Berth Inside,
+The Dolphin has been known to pack
+A Drowning Sailor on his back
+And bear him safely into port,--
+He was a Taxi-whale, in short.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Cockatrice
+
+
+If you will listen to advice
+You will avoid the Cockatrice--
+A caution I need hardly say
+Wholly superfluous to-day.
+Yet had you lived when they were rife
+Such warning might have saved your life.
+To meet the Cockatrice's eye
+Means certain death--and that is why
+When I its features here portray
+I make it look the other way.
+O Cockatrice! were you so mean
+What must the _Hen_atrice have been!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Cerberus
+
+
+Dear Reader, should you chance to go
+To Hades, do not fail to throw
+A "Sop to Cerberus" at the gate,
+His anger to propitiate.
+Don't say "Good dog!" and hope thereby
+His three fierce Heads to pacify.
+What though he try to be polite
+And wag his Tail with all his might,
+How shall one amiable Tail
+Against three angry Heads prevail?
+The Heads _must_ win.--What puzzles me
+Is why in Hades there should be
+A Watch dog; 'tis, I should surmise,
+The _last_ place one would burglarize.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Sphinx
+
+
+She was half Lady and half cat--
+What is so wonderful in that?
+Half of our lady friends (so say
+The other half) are _Cats_ to-day.
+In Egypt she made quite a stir,
+They carved huge Images of her.
+Riddles she asked of all she met
+And all who answered wrong, she ate.
+When Oedipus her riddle solved
+The minx--I mean the Sphinx--dissolved
+In tears. What is there, when one thinks,
+So wonderful about the Sphinx?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Sea Serpent
+
+
+O wondrous worm that won the Height
+Of Fame by keeping out of sight!
+Never was known on Land or Sea
+Such a Colossal Modesty;
+Never such arrogant pretence
+Of Ostentatious Diffidence.
+Celebrity whom none has seen,
+Save some Post Prandial Marine,
+No magazine can reproduce
+Your Photograph.--Oh, what's the use
+Of doing things when one may be
+So Famous a Nonentity!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Salamander
+
+
+The Salamander made his bed
+Among the glowing embers red.
+A Fiery Furnace, to his mind,
+Hygiene and Luxury combined.
+He was, if I may put it so,
+A Saurian Abednigo.
+He loved to climb with nimble ease
+The branches of the Gas-log Trees
+Where oft on chilly winter nights
+He rose to dizzy Fahrenheits.
+Believers in Soul Transmigration
+See in him the Re-incarnation
+Of those Sad Plagues of summer, who
+Ask, "Is it hot enough for you?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Jinn
+
+
+To call a Jinn the only thing
+One needed was a magic ring.
+You rubbed the ring and forth there came
+A monster born of smoke and flame,
+A thing of Vapor, Fume and Glare
+Ready to waft you anywhere.
+The magic Jinns of yesterday
+The wand of Science now obey.
+You ring, and lo! with rush and roar
+The panting monster's at the door,
+A thing of Vapor, Fume and Glare
+Ready to take you anywhere.
+What's in a name? What choice between
+The Giants, Jinn and Gasolene?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Mermaid
+
+
+Although a Fishwife in a sense,
+She does not barter Fish for Pence.
+Fisher of Men, her Golden Nets
+For foolish Sailormen she sets.
+All day she combs her hair and longs
+For Dimpled Feet and Curling-tongs.
+All night she dreams in ocean caves
+Of Low tide Shoes and Marcel Waves.
+And while the Fishwife, making sales,
+May sell her wares upon her scales,
+The Mermaid, wonderful to tell,
+Must wear her scales upon hersel'.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Unicorn
+
+
+The Unicorn 's a first-rate sort.
+He helps the Lion to support
+The royal arms of England's King
+And keep the Throne from tottering.
+I wonder what the King would do
+If his supporters all withdrew?
+Perhaps he'd try the Stage; a Throne
+Should be an easy stepping-stone
+To histrionic Heights, and who
+Knows till he tries what he can do?
+The King, with diligence and care,
+_Might_ rise to be a Manager.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Satyr
+
+
+The Satyr lived in times remote,
+A shape half-human and half-goat,
+Who, having all Man's faults combined
+With a Goat's nature unrefined,
+Was not what you would call a bright
+Example or a shining light.
+Far be it from me to condone
+The Satyr's sins, yet I must own
+I like to think there were a few
+Young Satyrs who to Heaven flew,
+And when Saint Peter, thunder browed,
+Seeing them, cried, "No goats allowed!"
+Although the gate slammed quickly to,
+Somehow their human halves got through;
+Whereat the kindly saint relented,
+And that's how Cherubs were invented.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Gargoyle
+
+
+The Gargoyle often makes its perch
+On a cathedral or a church,
+Where, mid ecclesiastic style,
+It smiles an early-Gothic smile.
+And while the parson, dignified,
+Spouts at his weary flock inside,
+The Gargoyle, from its lofty seat,
+Spouts at the people in the street,
+And, like the parson, seems to say
+To those beneath him, "Let us spray."
+I like the Gargoyle best; it plays
+So cheerfully on rainy days,
+While parsons (no one can deny)
+Are awful dampers--when they're dry.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Chimera
+
+
+You'd think a lion or a snake
+Were quite enough one's nerves to shake;
+But in this classic beast we find
+A lion and a snake combined,
+And, just as if that weren't enough,
+A goat thrown in to make it tough.
+Let scientists the breed pooh! pooh!
+Come with me to some Social Zoo
+And hear the bearded Lion bleat
+Goat-like on patent-kidded feet,
+Whose "Civil leer and damning praise"
+The serpent's cloven tongue betrays.
+Lo! lion, goat, and snake combined!
+Thus Nature doth repeat her kind.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ph[oe]nix
+
+
+The Ph[oe]nix was, as you might say,
+The burning question of his day:
+The more he burned, the more he grew
+Splendiferous in feathers new.
+And from his ashes rising bland,
+Did business at the same old stand.
+But though good people went about
+And talked, they could not put him out.
+A wond'rous bird--indeed, they say
+He is not quite extinct to-day.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Gryphon
+
+
+It chanced that Allah, looking round,
+When he had made his creatures, found
+Half of an Eagle and a pair
+Of extra Lion legs to spare.
+So, hating waste, he took some glue
+And made a Gryphon of the two.
+But when his handiwork he eyed,
+He frowned--and it was petrified,
+Doomed for all time to represent
+Impatience on a monument.
+Sometimes upon our path to-day
+Its living counterpart will stray--
+Columbia's Eagle strutting in
+An awf'ly English Lion's skin,
+With glass in eye and swagg'ring gait:
+Behold the Gryphon up to date.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Harpy
+
+
+They certainly contrived to raise
+Queer ladies in the olden days.
+Either the type had not been fixed,
+Or else Zoology got mixed.
+I envy not primeval man
+This female on the feathered plan.
+We only have, I'm glad to say,
+Two kinds of human bird to-day--
+Women and warriors, who still
+Wear feathers when dressed up to kill.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Centaur
+
+
+The Centaur led a double life:
+Two natures in perpetual strife
+He had, that never could agree
+On what the bill-of-fare should be;
+For when the man-half set his heart
+On taking dinner _a la carte_,
+The horse was sure to cast his vote
+Unswervingly for _table d'OAT_.
+A pretty sort of life to lead;
+The horse in time went off his feed,
+The hungry man was nigh demented,
+When one day--OATMEAL was invented!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Pegasus
+
+
+The ancients made no end of fuss
+About a horse named Pegasus,
+A famous flyer of his time,
+Who often soared to heights sublime,
+When backed by some poetic chap
+For the Parnassus Handicap.
+Alas for fame! The other day
+I saw an ancient "one-hoss shay"
+Stop at the Mont de Piete,
+And, lo! alighting from the same,
+A bard, whom I forbear to name.
+Noting the poor beast's rusty hide
+(The horse, I mean), methought I spied
+What once were wings. Incredulous,
+I cried, "Can _this_ be Pegasus!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Hydra
+
+
+The Hydra Hercules defied,
+Its nine diminished heads must hide
+Before the baneful modern beast
+Who has a thousand heads at least.
+See how in horrid tiers they rise,
+With straining ears and bulging eyes,
+While, blinded by fierce calcium rays,
+The trembling victim tribute pays
+Of song or measure, mime or jest,
+To soothe the savage Hydra's breast.
+If she please not the monster's whim,
+Wild scribes will tear her limb from limb;
+Even if charmed, he rend the air
+With hideous joy, let her beware;
+For she must surely, soon or late,
+Fall 'neath the hissing Hydra's hate.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Hyppogriff
+
+
+Biologists are prone to sniff
+At hybrids like the Hyppogriff.
+In evolution's plan, they say,
+There is no place for such as they.
+A horse with wings could not have more
+Than two legs, and this beast had four.
+Well, I for one am glad to waive
+Two of his legs, his wings to save.
+I'd even sell my auto--if
+I had one--for a Hyppogriff.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Minotaur
+
+
+No book of monsters is complete
+Without the Minotaur of Crete.
+Yet should I draw him you would quail,
+So in his place I draw a veil.
+O stars, that from Creation's birth
+Have winked at everything on earth,
+Who shine where poets fear to tread,
+  Relate the story in my stead!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Although it's comforting to know
+That Theseus slew him long ago,
+_We_ need not boast, we too could do
+With--well, a Theseus or two.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+The End.
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+  BOOKS BY OLIVER HERFORD
+
+_WITH PICTURES BY THE AUTHOR_
+
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