Identifier: slingsarrows01edge (find matches)
Title: Slings and arrows
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Edgett, Edwin Francis, 1867-1946
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Publisher: Boston, B. J. Brimmer company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed In the elegant English Of multitudinous posters, Is Dont Get Hurt Week. It matters not What has happened, Or what is to happenIn the days to come. If we are careful This week, We shall have done Our duty To those reformers Who are always looking For some new fadW herewith to humbug The public. 75 THE THEATRE LAUGHER SHE always sits Behind you, And with prophetic glee Anticipates the comic scenes And speeches, and many Not comic, With a screech Of shrilling laughter. Nothing escapes Her vigilant voice, And if the din Grows unbearable And you humbly turn around And venture to expostulate, Her escort calmly Makes a duet of the solo And throughout The rest of the evening Adds audible remarks To his companions shrieks. Therefore the rest is silence Or a change of seat. 76 THEIR GOAL IN the Book of Numbers We may read: And from thence They went to Beer. And also later In the Book of Judges It is related that Jotham ran away And fled, And went to Beer. Only these two times Is that delectable Beverage Mentioned in The Book of Books. 77
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THE CLOCK-GHANGERS DESPITE the claims To the contrary Made by the devotees Of clock-changing, There are this week Exactly the same number Of hours of daylight In every twenty-fourAs there were a week ago, Before the hands Were set ahead. In other words, No daylight was saved then, And none is lost now. 79 THE REACTIONARY WE hear a great deal About him nowadays, And to judge By the wrath he arouses In the minds of writers For certain papers It might be imagined That he wears horns. As a matter of fact, He is simply the man Or the woman Who in times past Was known by The ancientAnd honorable word Conservative. 80 THE EGOTIST UTfl, lIbeg, I myself feel, I am under, I was The Commander in Chief, I advised, I sent, Shall I, Can I,« I gave —Thus spake The great American egotist, And the noble Master of English speech Who strove — and failed —To keep us out of war. 81 THE HAT REMOVERS IF perchance A lady is present They stand in room Or hallwa yHat on head. But the instant They enter an elevator They remove it .Why? 82 T

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