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Title: The Kitten's Garden of Verses
Author: Oliver Herford
Release Date: November 10, 2007 [EBook #23433]
Language: English
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The Kitten's Garden
_of_ Verses
By
Oliver Herford
New York Charles Scribner's Sons
1911
Copyright, 1911, by Oliver Herford
BOOKS BY OLIVER HERFORD
_WITH PICTURES BY THE AUTHOR_
PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
THE BASHFUL EARTHQUAKE $1.25
A CHILD'S PRIMER OF NATURAL?HISTORY $1.25
OVERHEARD IN A GARDEN $1.25
MORE ANIMALS _net_, $1.00
THE RUBAIYAT OF A PERSIAN?KITTEN _net_, $1.00
THE FAIRY GODMOTHER-IN-LAW _net_, $1.00
A LITTLE BOOK OF BORES _net_, $1.00
THE PETER PAN ALPHABET _net_, $1.00
THE ASTONISHING TALE OF A?PEN-AND-INK PUPPET _net_, $1.00
A KITTEN'S GARDEN OF VERSES
(_postage extra_) _net_, $1.00

_WITH JOHN CECIL CLAY_
CUPID'S CYCLOPEDIA _net_, $1.00
CUPID'S FAIR-WEATHER BOOKE
(_postage extra_) _net_, $1.00
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To HAFIZ
Contents
Page
Winter and Summer 3

Rain 5

The Shadow Kitten 7

Education 9

A Thought 11

The Lion 13

The Milk Jug 15

Happy Thought 17
Kitten's Night Thought 19
The Puncture 21
Good and Bad Kittens 23
Anticipation 27
Foreign Kittens 29
The Joy Ride 31
Facilis Ascensus 33
The Whole Duty of Kittens 35
The Outing 37
The Puppy 39
The Moon 43
The Golden Cat 45
An Inquiry 47
The Kitten's Fancy 49
In Darkest Africa 51
The Dog 55
The Game 59
The Kitten's Garden _of_ Verses
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Winter and Summer
In Winter when the air is chill,
And winds are blowing loud and shrill,?All snug and warm I sit and purr,
Wrapped in my overcoat of fur.
In Summer quite the other way,
I find it very hot all day,?But Human People do not care,
For they have nice thin clothes to wear.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the world is like a stew,?And I am much too warm to purr,
I have to wear my Winter Fur?
[Illustration]
Rain
The rain is raining everywhere,
Kittens to shelter fly--?But Human Folk wear overshoes,
To keep their hind paws dry.
[Illustration]
The Shadow Kitten
There's a funny little kitten that tries to look like me,
But though I'm round and fluffy, he's as flat as flat can be; And when I try to mew to him he never makes a sound,
And when I jump into the air he never leaves the ground.
He has a way of growing, I don't understand at all.
Sometimes he's very little and sometimes he's very tall. And once when in the garden when the sun came up at dawn
He grew so big I think he stretched half-way across the lawn.
[Illustration]
Education
When People think that Kittens play,
It's really quite the other way.?For when they chase the Ball or Bobbin
They learn to catch a Mouse or Robin.
The Kitten, deaf to Duty's call,
Who will not chase the bounding ball,?A hungry Cathood will enjoy,
The scorn of Mouse and Bird and Boy.
[Illustration]
A Thought
It's very nice to think of how?In every country lives a Cow?To furnish milk with all her might?For Kittens' comfort and delight.
[Illustration]
The Lion
The Lion does not move at all,
Winter or Summer, Spring or Fall,?He does not even stretch or yawn,
But lies in silence on the lawn.
He must be lazy it is plain,
For there is moss upon his mane,?And what is more, a pair of Daws
Have built a nest between his paws.
Oh, Lazy Lion, big and brown,
This is no time for lying down!?The Sun is shining, can't you see?
Oh, please wake up and play