Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THINGS I LIKE Young onions, brown toffy, Walt Mason, iced coffee, Soft pencils, rare beef, English mustard; The ravishing, mellow, Rich tones of the 'cello; Fox terriers, Mae Marsh and cup custard. A pipe after dinner, Sweet Corn, Otis Skinner, Plum jam; and I own I am partial To old fashioned poker— (No " wild " cards, nor joker) Wheat cakes, and Vice President Marshall. Pepys' Diary; tiny Red radishes; Heine; Girls, birds, slippers, country physicians; Unitarian preachers, Cut plug, Latin teachers, H. G. Wells, Robert Frost, first editions. The dawn of a May day, The dawn of a pay-day, F. P. A., Thomas Hardy, Bab Ballads; Rabelais and Puccini, Benvenuto Cellini, And garlic in all of my salads. Traditions of tribal Beliefs, like the Bible; Bass fishing, the legends of Gleeman; Good cider — just tinglish — East Cleveland, pure English ; Thin socks, Oscar Wilde, Owen Seaman. These things, and some others, I love, O my brothers. The list is quite candidly stated ; But this comes to grieve me — 'Twas harder believe me, To write than the things that I hated !RHYME POVERTY 'Tis sad (we may have mentioned this before) That there are many things we may not sing Because they have no rhymes, or one, not more— And that one oft an unrelated thing. For instance, would we praise the lordly elk, (The antlered or the watch-charm-bearing sort) We must go far afield and speak of " whelk," (A shellfish seldom sought for food or sport). And if a line should chance to end with " web," Or if one speaks of Nature's verdant garb, That former line must always rhyme with "ebb," This latter verse perforce ends with a " barb." And never can you send your hero forth Women to win, or f oemen's casques to ca... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.