Title:  Fun and Nonsense

Author:  Willard Bonte

Release Date:  February 15, 2004 [EBook #11095]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  Us-ASCII

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[Illustration:  Front Cover]

FUN & NONSENSE

By Willard Bonte

[Illustration:  Frontispiece]

[Illustration:  By Willard Bonte]

INTRODUCTION

  Fun and Nonsense are a pair
    Of merry little twins,
  And when they come to visit us
    They bring their friends, the Grins.

  They’re coming now to visit you. 
    This page we’ll call the door. 
  To open wide, just turn the leaf. 
    Why, we have met before!

[Illustration:  Introduction]

THE BARBER

  Said Chocolate Drop the Barber,
  “Why, bless my ugly soul! 
  I’ll ask that stick of peppermint
  To be my Barber pole.”

[Illustration:  The Barber]

THE REFUSAL

  “Dear, sweet Lady Cracker,
  My passions you know.” 
  “And I scorn them, Judge Wafer,
  As you’re lacking in dough.”

[Illustration:  The Refusal]

A HOPELESS CASE

  “What is the use?” quoth the Whitewash Brush,
  “I’ll comb my hair no more;
  For try as I will to make it lie,
  It still stays pompadour.”

[Illustration:  A Hopeless Case]

THE GREENHORN

  A lettuce walking out one day,
  Lost his head, so lost his way;
  A Pumpkin happened on the scene,
  And said it came from being green.

[Illustration:  The Greenhorn]

OLD MR. MATCH

  Old Mr. Match gave his head a good scratch,
  And his face lighted up with a smile;
  “It is getting quite dark, but with my cheery spark
  I will lengthen the day for awhile.”

[Illustration:  Old Mr. Match]

THOUGHTS UNSTRUNG

  “Alas!  I fear my mind doth wander. 
  As o’er this narrative I ponder;
  I usually know what I have read,
  But this time I have lost the Thread.”

[Illustration:  Thoughts Unstrung]

THE MISER

  The Pocketbook has money,
  On that subject he is daft;
  But when one strikes him for a loan
  He answers, “I am strapped.”