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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Smoker's Year Book, 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 Smoker's Year Book Author: Oliver Herford Illustrator: Sewell Collins Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22825] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SMOKER'S YEAR BOOK *** Produced by Janet Blenkinship 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 SMOKER'S YEAR BOOK _The verses written on paper by_ Oliver Herford & _The pictures drawn on stone by_ Sewell Collins [Illustration] The whole published by MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY NEW YORK 1908 _Copyright, 1908, by_ MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY NEW YORK _All rights reserved_ _Published, October, 1908_ JANUARY Now Time the harvester surveys His sorry crops of yesterdays; Of trampled hopes and reaped regrets, And for another harvest whets His ancient scythe, eying the while The budding year with cynic smile. Well, let him smile; in snug retreat I fill my pipe with honeyed sweet, Whose incense wafted from the bowl Shall make warm sunshine in my soul, And conjure mid the fragrant haze Fair memories of other days. [Illustration] [Illustration] FEBRUARY Bend you now before the shrine Of the good Saint Valentine. Show to him your broken heart-- Pray the Saint to take your part. Should he intercede in vain And the maid your heart disdain, Call upon Saint Nicotine; He will surely intervene. Bring burnt off'ring to his feet, Incense of Havana, sweet. Then the maiden's shade invoke, It will disappear in smoke! [Illustration] [Illustration] MARCH Here comes bluff March--a cross between A Jester and a Libertine. He loves to make the parson race With wicked words his hat to chase; To dye with compromising rose The pious man's abstemious nose. The ladies hate him, though he shows A pretty taste for silken hose. The smoker views him with distrust, Shielding
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