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Title: Happy Days

Author: Oliver Herford
John Cecil Clay

Release Date: November 25, 2007 [EBook #23614]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

_To Stern Critics_

Here's to stern Critics!
May they some day learn
The forward lookout's
Better than the stern!

[Illustration]

Here's to her shadow!
May it mark the hours
Upon the sundial of her life--in flowers!

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HAPPY DAYS

BY
OLIVER HERFORD
AND
JOHN CECIL CLAY

NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
MITCHELL KENNERLEY

THE.PLIMPTON.PRESS
NORWOOD.MASS.U.S.A

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_CONTENTS_

PAGE
TO STERN CRITICS 3
TO HER SHADOW 4
TO FASHION 9
TO THE TYPEWRITER 11
THE FLOOR 12
TO MUSIC 15
TO THE PUBLISHER 17
HERE'S LOOKING 19
THE DOVE OF PEACE 21
TO THE CLOCK 23
TO HOPE 25
TO LIBERTY 27
STAIRS: A TOAST 29
TO LADY NICOTINE 31
OH, EDITOR, EDITOR! 33
TO THE CREDITOR 35
TO NEPTUNE 37
TO THE WAITER 39
TO TEMPTATION 41
TO THE MAID WITH FANCY FREE 43
TO OUR SWEETHEARTS 45
TO OUR READERS 46

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[Illustration:]

Fashion! Lovely Dame!
Pledge in sparkling wine!
Let us add her name
To the Muses' nine!

Though the lovely Nin