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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gobolinks, by
+Ruth McEnery Stuart and Albert Bigelow Paine
+
+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: Gobolinks
+ or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old
+
+Author: Ruth McEnery Stuart
+ Albert Bigelow Paine
+
+Release Date: March 2, 2011 [EBook #35452]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOBOLINKS ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Jason Isbell and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+[Transcriber's Note: This book relies on the illustrations to be fully
+understood. Use the fully illustrated HTML version to get the full
+meaning from this lovely book.]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ Gobolinks
+ or
+ Shadow-Pictures
+ For Young and Old
+
+ BY And
+ Ruth McEnery Albert Bigelow
+ Stuart Paine
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ New York
+ The Century Co.
+ 1896
+
+ Copyright, 1896, by The Century Co.
+
+
+
+
+DEDICATION
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+TO OLD FRIENDS WITH YOUNG HEARTS AND YOUNG HEARTS GROWING OLD.
+
+ Dear Friends of our youth, should you happen to look
+ At the curious things in this curious book,
+ And should you, with quizzical countenance, ask
+ The how and the why of our curious task--
+ We could truly reply
+ To the query of "why--"
+ To the smile on your lip, and your questioning eye,
+ That the work was begun
+ In a spirit of fun,
+ To amuse when the work of the daylight was done;
+ And continued, because we believed it would be
+ Amusement to such as were weary as we
+ To drift for awhile among goblins and elves,
+ Or haply make shadows and rhymes for themselves.
+ For though years have passed since we drifted apart,
+ We're all of us more or less children at heart.
+ And maybe yourselves and the youngsters 't will please
+ To dwell for an hour with such creatures as these.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Now, some one has said, in a moment of spleen,
+ We cannot make pictures of what we've not seen;
+ But such an assertion deserves only scorn,
+ For the shape of the Gobolink never was born.
+ He comes like the marvelous mimes of our dreams,
+ When one has been supping on salads and creams,
+ And curious changes of vision take place--
+ The horse may appear with an elephant face--
+ The goat with a cane, and the goose with a hat--
+ Six legs on the dog, and two tails on the cat;
+ We never can tell, though we're sorely perplexed,
+ What shape will be shown us, or what will come next;
+ And these are the things that our Gobolinks do--
+ Dear friends, and dear children, we give them to you.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE GOBOLINK AND HOW TO MAKE HIM.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Drop a little ink on a sheet of white paper. Fold the sheet in the
+center and press the ink-spots together with the fingers. All of the
+pictures in this book were made in this manner----none of them having
+been touched with a pen or brush.
+
+A great deal of practice will only go to show that the Gobolink, as his
+name implies, is a veritable goblin of the ink-bottle, and the way he
+eludes the artist's design proves him a self-made eccentric creature of
+a superior imagination.
+
+It is hardly to be expected that the animals and birds of prey referred
+to under more or less familiar names in the accompanying rhymes will be
+strikingly correct as to anatomy; and because, as upon page 15, the
+elephants, or whatever they may be, happen to have each a row of
+interesting tails continuing along the full length of the spinal column,
+no unkind criticism should be made upon the ability of the overworked
+and conscientious artists, who would have made fewer tails if they
+could, and have added nothing to the price of the book on account of
+undue liberality in the matter of caudal appendages.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In fact the most unexpected and startling results will often
+occur--results grotesquely and strangely beautiful, well worthy of
+preservation. The authors of this book will be glad to receive a few
+examples of some of the more unusual Gobolinks or Shadow-Pictures that
+may occur to those interested in the amusement. They may be sent care of
+The Century Co.
+
+
+
+
+THE GAME OF GOBOLINK.
+
+
+Persons of all ages may obtain amusement out of Gobolinks, or
+Shadow-Pictures, as they are also called.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The following is a very good method for playing the game:
+
+Let three of the company be selected by the hostess as judges. To each
+of the others she then distributes from five to ten sheets of paper,
+from which they must produce at least one completed picture and rhyme in
+a given length of time, say five minutes, at the end of which the
+hostess rings a bell and the judges proceed at once to take up the
+pictures. These are then passed upon by them while the hostess is
+distributing a fresh round of paper, and the best two and the worst one
+are laid aside.
+
+Those whose pictures have been selected now act as judges, surrendering
+their places at the tables to their predecessors, and another lot of
+pictures and rhymes are made.
+
+The game is continued in this manner until the hostess announces the
+arrival of the time for final judgment, or until a certain hour
+specified in the beginning.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The three judges then in office now select one of the company as
+"reader," and such person selected shall take up his position in strong
+light, and after reading the verses on each picture shall display it in
+full view of all present. It should then be pinned to a suspended sheet
+or screen where it may be easily examined by the company.
+
+This shall be continued until all the pictures selected by the judges
+have been so treated and displayed. The reader then acts as chairman,
+and the company proceed to vote on them for first, second, and booby
+prizes.
+
+The Gobolink receiving second largest number of votes for first prize is
+awarded second. The ballot for booby should be, of course, taken
+separately. Pictures should be signed or otherwise identified.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Where a number are making the pictures, it is well to seat them around a
+large table with the ink-supply in the center.
+
+Jet-black ink should be used, and a good quality of unglazed paper. The
+ink should not be too thin.
+
+The table should be protected from accident with several thicknesses of
+newspaper.
+
+A filled pen or tincture-dropper may be used for supplying the ink.
+
+For a specially invited Gobolink party the company may dress in any
+grotesque fashion, remembering only that both sides of their costume
+shall be the same, this being a feature peculiar to Gobolink attire.
+
+No game could be more productive of amusement than Gobolink.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ CONTENTS.
+
+
+ PAGE
+ Drum-Major 1
+ Somethings 2
+ Bubblers 3
+ Jack-o-my-Goblin 3
+ Friendly Chickens 4
+ Unfriendly Chickens 5
+ They Stayed at Home 5
+ The Butterfly 6
+ Dipsey Doodle 7
+ His Relative 7
+ Striking Resemblance 8
+ Mask 9
+ Human Nature 9
+ Red Riding-Hood's Wolf 10
+ Witch Broth 11
+ Just Like Other Children 12
+ Sea Dance 13
+ Singers 13
+ Birds on the Wire 14
+ A Hard Question 15
+ Moon Dance 16
+ Prehistoric Animals 17
+ Graceful Polly-Wogs 18
+ South-Sea Idol 19
+ Preparing for Winter 20
+ Bathers 21
+ Bad Boy 21
+ Brotherly Consolation 22
+ Butterfly Man 23
+ Transferred Smile 24
+ Royal Grotto 25
+ Modest Miss Kangaroo 25
+ Gargoyle 26
+ Elf Party 27
+ Unpleasant Companions 28
+ Grenadier 28
+ Kings' Jesters 29
+ Funny Octopus 30
+ Nymphs and Ostriches 31
+ A Convenience 32
+ Fox and Geese 33
+ Entomology 33
+ Tail of Taddy Pole 34
+ Arabesque 35
+ Wind Maidens 36
+ Gobolinks' Mirror 36
+ Pugilists 37
+ What They Left 38
+ Gobolink Horses 39
+ Miss De Lisle 40
+ Her Curling-Tongs 41
+ Bears and Harlequins 42
+ Faithful Notes 43
+ Polite Colly-Wobbles 43
+ Brave Warriors 44
+ Steeple Men 45
+ Sheet-and-Pillow Party 45
+ Moss-Backs 46
+ What-is-it 47
+ Merry Water-Weedles 48
+ Narrow Escape 49
+ Vicious Golly-Pops 50
+ Captives 50
+ Divers 51
+ Shadow-Harp 52
+ Glad Return 53
+ Grotesques 54
+ Crests 55
+ Frontier Coat-of-Arms 56
+ Fanciful Elk 56
+ T' other and Which 57
+ Cathodes 58, 59
+ In the X-Ray 60
+ Beetleville Dance 61
+ Queen Beetle 62
+ King Beetle 63
+ Other Beetles 63
+ Our Pet 64
+ Good Breeding 64
+ The Washerwomen 65
+ A Marine Ball 66
+ Queer Mollusks 67
+ Sea Weeds 68, 72
+ Finis 73
+
+
+
+
+Gobolinks
+
+
+THE DRUM MAJOR
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A jolly little major of the drum,
+ Behind him all the shadow people come,
+ As he bravely leads the way
+ For the Gobolink array
+ With a bearing most important, and his uniform so gay;
+ Oh, it's very plain to see that he's the hero of the day,
+ This jolly little major of the drum.
+
+
+THE SOMETHINGS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A Something met a Something
+ In the mists of Shadowland.
+ They ran against each other,
+ And came quickly to a stand.
+
+ "And who are you?" said Something One.
+ And Something Two, said he,
+ "That's just the very question that
+ At once occurred to me."
+
+
+THE BUBBLERS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These boys have just returned from school,
+ And now forget their troubles--
+ They both are sitting on a stool,
+ And blowing crooked bubbles.
+
+
+THE JACK-O-MY-GOBLIN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A terrible creature of Ink-bottle Land,
+ A Jack-o-my-goblin is he.
+ The sea-urchins made him to place on the sand,
+ And frighten the monsters that dwell on the land.
+ They took a sea-pumpkin and carved it by hand,
+ And lighted it up in their glee
+ With a phosphorus fish from the sea;
+ Now all the day long on the shore doth he stand,
+ While Land-loodles terrified flee,
+ Oh, yes,
+ The terrified Land-loodles flee.
+
+
+THE FRIENDLY CHICKENS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These chicks have been out in all weathers,
+ They have little to show but pin-feathers;
+ But their friendship is strong,
+ And they sing us a song
+ Regardless of wherefores or whethers.
+
+
+THEY STAYED AT HOME
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These chickens long debated
+ On a costume for a ball,
+ And became so much elated
+ That they didn't go at all.
+
+
+THE UNFRIENDLY CHICKENS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ The saucy chicks which here you see
+ Know neither wrong nor right--
+ They can't be good like you and me,
+ Who sometimes really do agree--
+ So all day long they fight.
+
+
+THE BUTTERFLY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ How gaily flits the Butterfly
+ Across the seas of clover.
+ How blue the arching summer sky
+ That hangs the country over.
+
+ On wings of purple, brown, and gold
+ He drifts across the meadow.
+ His harmless flight you may behold
+ From Yucatan to Yeddo.
+
+
+DIPSEY DOODLE..
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ This is little Dipsey Doodle,
+ Sometimes called the great Kioodle.
+
+
+HIS RELATIVE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ This is Dipsey Doodle's brother--
+ They have ears like one another.
+
+
+A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two Widgelums went for a walk one day
+ By the shores of a shimmering sea;
+ And one of them said to the other, "I pray,
+ Now what's your opinion of me?"
+
+ Then the Widgelum looked at his widgelous mate:
+ "My charming companion," said he,
+ "The things that I think I am loath to relate,
+ You look so exactly like me."
+
+
+THE MASK
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Here is a curious mask--
+ I don't know of whom or of what--
+ I've never had courage to ask;
+ A saint's I am sure it is not.
+
+
+HUMAN NATURE?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two rival Woojums did declare
+ That they must surely sever,
+ But lo! that day, they found that they
+ Were better friends than ever.
+
+
+RED RIDING-HOOD'S WOLF
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Oh, this is the wolf that Red Riding-hood found
+ When she came to her grandmother's bed,
+ Her ears were so long and her eyes big and round,
+ While her voice had a strange and a terrible sound
+ When she answered what Riding-hood said,
+ For alas, the grandmother was dead.
+ And Little Red Riding-hood sprang with a bound
+ Through the doorway and hastily fled,
+ Oh, my,
+ In terror she hastily fled.
+
+
+WITCH BROTH
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Witches, witches in a tree,
+ Brew your broth of mystery.
+ Snail and toad and lizard in it--
+ Tail of cat and tongue of linnet,
+ Rabbit's foot and wing of bee--
+ Witches, witches, none for me.
+
+
+JUST LIKE OTHER CHILDREN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two little Gobolinks one day
+ Were sent to do the dishes,
+ Instead of which they ran away
+ And fished for shadow-fishes.
+
+ They fished and fished and fished and fished,
+ And but a leaf they caught, O,
+ And then they wished and wished and wished
+ They'd done the thing they ought to.
+
+ So, by and by they homeward crept
+ With plumage drooping sadly,
+ And there they bowed their heads and wept
+ Because they felt so badly.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+A SEA-DANCE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two beautiful sponges one day
+ Joined hands with a haughty sting-ray,
+ And away danced the three
+ Through the depths of the sea
+ In a most irresponsible way.
+
+
+THE SINGERS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These ducks have voices sweet to hear,
+ And frequently before us
+ They stretch their mouths from ear to ear,
+ And sing to us in chorus.
+
+
+THE BIRDS AND THE WIRE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Upon the quivering wire,
+ As hearkening to a lyre,
+ The sparrows gather at the break of day.
+ Perhaps that vibrant string
+ Is tuned that they may sing
+ An anthem to the glories of the May.
+
+
+A HARD QUESTION
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Here are two pairs of funny beasts,
+ I hardly know their habits--
+ Perhaps they may be elephants--
+ Perhaps they may be rabbits.
+
+ In conversation they appear
+ Withdrawn from one another,
+ As if attempting to decide
+ What name to give the other.
+
+
+THE MOON DANCE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two shadow-colts one summer night did try
+ To dance a jig because the moon was high:
+ But the moon obscured its face,
+ For she thought 't was a disgrace.
+ While the little stars were laughing in the sky.
+
+
+PREHISTORIC ANIMALS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Many creatures such as these,
+ Ere the dawn of history,
+ On the land, and in the seas
+ Manufactured mystery.
+
+ Mystery for mighty men
+ Who, like Doctor Dry-bone
+ Bring them into form again
+ From a scale or thigh-bone.
+
+
+THE GRACEFUL POLLY-WOGS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Oh, the polly-wog waltzes with wonderful grace,
+ And he skates with a radiant smile on his face,
+ While his arm in the air
+ Has the curve, I declare,
+ Of some beautiful creature's of Thrace.
+
+
+A SOUTH-SEA IDOL
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ There lives an old god in the isles of the West,
+ And a wonderful god is he,
+ With a star on his brow, and a star on his breast,
+ While at left and at right,
+ In their armor drest,
+ A dragon and knight
+ On his shoulders rest,
+ And he dwells in the great South Sea.
+
+
+PREPARING FOR WINTER
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These squirrels have paused to consider
+ The fact that 't is late in the fall,
+ And time to lay nuts up for winter
+ If they would have any at all.
+
+ The red squirrel hoards like a miser,
+ But, alas, the improvident gray,
+ He's only a pauper of winter
+ Who scampers the summer away.
+
+
+THE BATHERS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Adown the beach at Rockaway,
+ Three bathers one hot summer day
+ Retired to while the hours away.
+
+ Their minds were free, their hearts were light.
+ The August sun was fierce and bright,
+ They dived and swam from morn till night.
+
+
+THE BAD BOY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ This little fellow misbehaved,
+ And gave the people shocks,
+ Until at last they were compelled
+ To put him in the stocks.
+
+
+BROTHERLY CONSOLATION
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A Thingamy-bob
+ Got out of a job,
+ And went to consult with his brother:
+ Said his brother to him,
+ "Your chances are slim
+ Unless you go hunt up another."
+
+
+THE BUTTERFLY MAN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A very gay fellow was he--
+ As gay as a mortal could be.
+ And he fluttered about
+ Till at last he turned out
+ A Butterfly man, as you see.
+
+
+THE TRANSFERRED SMILE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two little snails did smile and smile,
+ The summer day beguiling.
+ Two birds espied them from afar,
+ And now the birds are smiling.
+
+
+THE ROYAL GROTTO
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A king and a queen in a grotto
+ Are kissing as kings and queens ought to
+ If you'll look you will find
+ Two attendants behind,--
+ "To watch and to guard," is their motto.
+
+
+THE MODEST MISS KANGAROO
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two kangaroos upon a pole
+ Were talking softly to each other.
+ One whispered: "Dear, upon the whole,
+ I think you'd better ask my mother."
+
+
+THE GARGOYLE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A gargoyle here you see.
+ I've heard it said that he
+ Was found in France
+ By strangest chance--
+ But what is that to me?
+
+ I only know that we
+ Discovered him to be
+ An imp of ink;
+ And so I think
+ He's ours, as you'll agree.
+
+
+THE ELF PARTY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These four little two-horned elves
+ Are seated on coraline shelves.
+ The spot where they be
+ Is down under the sea,
+ And they've got the whole reef to themselves.
+
+
+UNPLEASANT COMPANIONS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Here are two Wriggles from Wriggelum-town--
+ Their legs are sky-blue and their bodies are brown;
+ Their tails are a wonderful changeable hue;
+ I don't care to have them for playmates, do you?
+
+
+THE GRENADIER
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A soldierly fellow is he,
+ With swords as erect as can be.
+ His attendants are queer,
+ And so small, they appear
+ To barely reach up to his knee.
+
+
+KINGS' JESTERS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Jesters from the courts of kings
+ Tell their secret whisperings.
+ Just a fleeting moment, then
+ They must hurry back again.
+ Ever making monarchs gay,
+ Happy-hearted jesters they.
+
+
+THE FUNNY OCTOPUS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A jolly old octopus lived in the sea,
+ With a hey-diddle hi-diddle dum;
+ And the funniest sort of a fellow was he,
+ This jolly old octopus under the sea,
+ With a mouth where the top of his head ought to be,
+ To swallow the divers that come--
+ This jolly old octopus under the sea,
+ With a hey-diddle hi-diddle dum.
+
+
+THE NYMPHS AND THE OSTRICHES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two pious little nymphs are kneeling here--
+ Two double-headed ostriches above them;
+ And on their backs two gallant knights appear--
+ Perhaps they'll see the little nymphs and love them.
+
+
+A CONVENIENCE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ The shadow-rack stands in the Shadow-man's hall;
+ It holds shadow-canes and umbrellas, and all
+ The various things that the Gobolinks use
+ When they go for a walk to get rid of the blues.
+
+
+ENTOMOLOGY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These are some insects that dwell in the grass
+ And nip at the gobolinks' toes as they pass.
+ Their legs are uneven, their bodies are queer.
+ Their habits are very uncertain, I fear.
+
+
+FOX AND GEESE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two foxes stole two geese one night,
+ When the air was warm and the moon was bright:
+ One started west--one started east--
+ Their hearts intent on a glorious feast.
+ But alas! for the things that we hope to do!
+ A funny old man, with pistols two,
+ Came running out, where the moon was bright,
+ And they dropped their plunder and took to flight.
+
+
+THE TAIL OF TADDY POLE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ There was a little Polliwog--
+ His name was Taddy Pole.
+ He lived within a little bog,
+ Beside a crawfish hole.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ And all the day did Taddy play
+ Around a sunken log,
+ Until he lost his tail one day,
+ And then he was a frog.
+
+
+THE ARABESQUE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Oh, here are two doves in a bower,
+ Or a wonderful arabesque flower;
+ Or a nobby design
+ For a sweet valentine;
+ Or, reversed, 't is a beast with a glower.
+
+
+THE GOBOLINKS' MIRROR
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Tins is the mirror the gobolinks use
+ To do up their tresses in style if they choose.
+ To do up their tresses,
+ And look at their dresses,
+ And maybe to button their shoes.
+
+
+WIND MAIDENS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Here are two maids of the wind
+ Whose dresses are strangely designed.
+ They appear to be made
+ Without buttons or braid,
+ And fastened together behind.
+
+
+THE PUGILISTS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ The pugilistic craze is such
+ That e'en the gobolinks absorb it.
+ These pictures don't amount to much,
+ But they were made for Fitz and Corbett.
+
+
+WHAT THEY LEFT
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Oh, here's to the poet that sings
+ The song of the gobolink kings
+ Who left silhouettes
+ With their kindest regrets,
+ And other quite wonderful things.
+
+
+GOBOLINK HORSES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These are the steeds that the gobolinks use;
+ They love them and pet them and never abuse.
+ Their backs are not pleasant to sit on, they say,
+ So they ride them erect in the hippodrome way.
+
+
+MISS F.M. DE LISLE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ This is a damsel who dresses in style.
+ Her name is Miss Fannie Magruder De Lisle.
+ She loves to look pretty--as most of us do--
+ That's why she's so stylish, and dignified, too.
+
+
+FANNIE'S CURLING-TONGS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These are the irons with which Fannie crimps
+ Her fair auburn tresses whenever she primps.
+ She curls and arranges her locks with great care,
+ Because she is proud of her radiant hair.
+
+
+THE BEARS AND THE HARLEQUINS.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Gay harlequins dancing--beribboned are they
+ And carry two poles in the air;
+ That rest on their heads in a curious way,
+ And top of each pole is a bear,
+ I declare,
+ A wonderful, long-tailed bear.
+
+
+THE FAITHFUL NOTES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ An old guitar once broke its strings,
+ And all the musical notes took wings;
+ They harried away to lands afar.
+ But two of them stayed with the old guitar.
+
+
+THE POLITE COLLY-WOBBLES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Very polite colly-wobbles are these--
+ They hang by their feet to the branches of trees,
+ While a hand they extend
+ To a wobbledy friend,
+ And often they say, "If you please."
+
+
+THE BRAVE WARRIORS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two Indian warriors got frightened one day,
+ And fled from the midst of alarms;
+ And later they met in a curious way,
+ Each bearing a goat in his arms.
+
+
+STEEPLE MEN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two funny old three-legged gnomes
+ Came out of their shadowy domes:
+ They made their salute
+ With a hand and a foot,
+ And then hurried back to their homes.
+
+
+THE SHEET-AND-PILLOW PARTY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A pillow-case party the Gobolinks gave,
+ And it proved a right merry carouse:
+ But I'm sure you'd have laughed at their attitudes grave
+ As they made their ridiculous bows.
+
+
+MOSS-BACKS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Here are two scraggle-de-racks
+ With moss on their beautiful backs--
+ The sort that you'll find
+ On such of mankind
+ As fail to keep up with the facts.
+
+
+A WHAT-IS-IT
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ There was an old man of high feather,
+ Who said, "I can't really tell whether
+ I'm a man or a mouse,
+ Or the roof of a house,
+ So much may depend on the weather."
+
+
+THE MERRY WATER-WEEDLES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Within the caverns of the sea
+ Two Water-weedles stay.
+ Their hearts are happy as can be,
+ Within the caverns of the sea
+ They sing and frolic in their glee
+ Throughout the livelong day.
+ Within the caverns of the sea
+ Two water-weedles stay.
+
+
+A NARROW ESCAPE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two piggies went to market
+ All on a market day,
+ But when the butcher caught them
+ They wished they'd stayed away.
+
+ "Oh, Piggy-wiggy, fare you well,
+ Our ribs will soon be spare."
+ And they quickly ran away,
+ And now they don't go there.
+
+
+THE CAPTIVES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Pray tell us, if you please,
+ What sort of things are these:
+ A shadow-ghost has captured them,
+ And holds them fast with ease.
+
+
+THE VICIOUS GOLLY-POPS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Here are two Golly-pops
+ Looking for lollypops
+ Such as grow under the sea.
+ Their ways are ambitious,
+ Their faces are vicious.
+ I'm glad they're not looking for me.
+
+
+THE DIVERS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two divers, one sweet summer day,
+ Went down into the ocean,
+ They saw the fishes all at play,
+ The sea-flowers all in motion.
+
+ They danced a jig and sang a song,
+ And gathered water-roses,
+ When, lo, two lobsters came along,
+ And bit them on their toeses.
+
+
+THE SHADOW-HARP
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ This is the harp of which nobody sings--
+ Where is the keyboard and where are the strings?
+ The strings are undone and the keys thrown away,
+ For this is the harp on which shadow-folk play.
+
+
+A GLAD RETURN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two little maids just home from school
+ Have been so long asunder--
+ They first embrace, then face to face
+ They stand and look and wonder.
+
+
+GROTESQUES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Very funny creatures these--
+ Can't tell what they are.
+ Men or birds or beasts or bees--
+ Very funny creatures these--
+ Turn them either way you please--
+ View them near or far.
+ Very funny creatures these--
+ Can't tell what they are.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+SHADOW-CRESTS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ These are designs of heraldry
+ That shadow-folk affect,
+ Though some are no less shadowy
+ Than those that men select.
+
+ For many men have bought a crest
+ Although they come quite dear,
+ And such of those as can't invest
+ May find an emblem here.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+A FRONTIER COAT-OF-ARMS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ This is a crest
+ That came out of the West,
+ For the family was founded
+ Where hunters abounded,
+ So the head of a deer
+ And two hunters appear.
+
+
+THE FANCIFUL ELK
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ This is the head of an elk, as you see.
+ His horns are as tall as a sycamore tree.
+ They are strangely designed,
+ And I think you will find
+ He has horns where his ears ought to be.
+
+
+T' OTHER AND WHICH
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Ink-bottle imps turn up their noses
+ When they meet each other:
+ And the reason, I suppose, is--
+ Can't tell which from t' other.
+
+
+CATHODES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ And here we have a lot of things
+ Defying nomenclature.
+ The bones of Gobolinks are they,
+ Revealing in the cathode ray
+ Their anatomic nature.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: CATHODE]
+
+
+IN THE X-RAY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Cathode fairy,
+ Light and airy,
+ Sunny weather,
+ Two together,
+ Caring nothing why or whether
+ Flesh or blood or bone or feather
+ Shows on such a summer day
+ 'Neath the Cathode's magic ray.
+
+
+A BEETLEVILLE DANCE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ The beetles gave a party,
+ And all their friends were there.
+ The welcome was so hearty
+ To join the beetles' party,
+ The Joodle and the Jarty
+ Came flying through the air.
+ Oh, the beetles gave a party,
+ And all their friends were there.
+
+
+QUEEN BEETLE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ A Lady queen of Beetle-land--
+ Attendants small on either hand.
+ They walk or fly with equal skill--
+ They fetch and carry at her will.
+ I'm glad, I'm sure, that we have seen
+ The beetles and their lady queen.
+
+
+BEETLES
+
+[Illustration: GOLD BUG]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ This is a beetle that came from Metuchen--
+ The plan of his house is likewise his escutcheon.
+
+
+KING BEETLE
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Oh, a marvelous mind has the old beetle king,
+ And he rules in a marvelous way;
+ For he rolls up his eyes and commences to sing
+ When his subjects go glittering by on the wing;
+ And 'tis said that his notes have a powerful ring
+ When he chants at the breaking of day--
+ They say--
+ His anthem at breaking of day.
+
+
+OUR PET
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ The head of a Gobolink tiger--
+ With smellers arranged as you see
+ He used to reside on the Niger;
+ But now he is living with me.
+
+
+GOOD BREEDING
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Most Shadow-people are polite.
+ And bow whene'er they meet;
+ For us to do the same is right,
+ At home or in the street.
+
+
+THE WASHERWOMEN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ There were some old ladies of Dundee
+ Who did all their washing on Mondee.
+ Then they shook out their clothes
+ Till they dried, I suppose,
+ To have them all ready for Sundee.
+
+
+A MARINE BALL
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Two lobsters and two sea-horses
+ One day came out of the wet;
+ They heard a mermaid sing her song,
+ And danced a minuet.
+
+
+THE QUEER MOLLUSKS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Ridiculous mollusks are we,
+ And dwell in the depths of the sea.
+ Our bodies are jelly,
+ And we haven't a belly
+ In the place where our bellies should be.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+SEAWEEDS
+
+[Illustration: SEA-TULIP[A]]
+
+ Within the garden of the sea
+ Are gems of beauty rare--
+ The Star-wort and Anemone
+ And Ocean pinks are there.
+
+ Oh, these are dainty things indeed
+ The Mermaids keep in store;
+ But fairer still, to me, the weed
+ That decks the ocean's floor.
+
+ Whatever flower of earth we win,
+ Howe'er so fair it be,
+ 'T will not surpass those weeds within
+ The garden of the sea.
+
+[Footnote A: Names given are in use only in Gobolink-land.]
+
+
+SEAWEEDS
+
+[Illustration: ICICLE PLANT]
+
+[Illustration: TOWER WEED.]
+
+[Illustration: GIANT BLUE STEM]
+
+[Illustration: PRAYER WEED]
+
+[Illustration: COMB WEED]
+
+[Illustration: LYNX HEAD]
+
+[Illustration: MONK WEED]
+
+[Illustration: SEA CHICORY]
+
+
+
+
+FINIS
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ There was a gay Gobolink known as Maginnis,
+ But now he is dead and we use him for Finis;
+ Or, if you prefer to pronounce it Fin-nee,
+ We'll say that this Gobolink's name was Magee.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+
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