[Pg 3] [Pg 3] A Line-o’-Verse or Two By Bert Leston Taylor The Reilly & Britton Co. Chicago [Pg 4] [Pg 4] Copyright, 1911 by The Reilly & Britton Co. [Pg 5] [Pg 5] NOTE For the privilege of reprinting the rimes gathered here I am indebted to the courtesy of the Chicago Tribune and Puck, in whose pages most of them first appeared. “The Lay of St. Ambrose” is new. One reason for rounding up this fugitive verse and prisoning it between covers was this: Frequently—more or less—I receive a request for a copy of this jingle or that, and it is easier to mention a publishing house than to search through ancient and dusty files. The other reason was that I wanted to. B. L. T. [Pg 7] [Pg 7] TO MY READERS