# In Other Words

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IN OTHER WORDS
IN OTHER WORDS
By FRANKLIN P. ADAMS
author of “tobogganing on parnassus”
Garden CityNew York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1912
Copyright, 1912, by Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
Copyright, 1906, 1908, by Keppler & Schwarzmann Publishers of “Puck” Copyright, 1910, by Success Magazine Copyright, 1910, by Collier’s Weekly Copyright, 1911, by Century Company Copyright, 1911, 1912, by the Evening Mail Copyright, 1911, 1912, by Metropolitan Magazine
To THE W.-K. HUMAN RACE
THIS BOOK IS HOPEFULLY DEDICATED
CONTENTS :
| page ||
| Craving Your Attention | vi |
| From the Rome Herald, Nov. 29, 71 A. D. | 1 |
| T. R. to W. H. T. | 3 |
| The Costofliving | 5 |
| It’s Really Disheartening | 7 |
| More Advice | 9 |
| A Bid to a House-Party | 11 |
| What Cut into Horace’s Work | 13 |
| Horace on Contentment | 14 |
| “Simplicity” | 16 |
| Getting Lydia’s Number | 17 |
| Spring Pome | 19 |
| A Sealed Proposal | 21 |
| Cheer Up, Postumus | 22 |
| The Good Old Socialistic Days | 24 |
| A Plea for the Present | 25 |
| Indorsing Xanthias’s Choice | 26 |
| Horace to Maecenas | 27 |
| “Good-by, My Lover, Good-by!” | 29 |
| Thoughts on Matters and Things | 30 |
| On an Upright Life | 33 |
| The Stinging of V. Catullus, Esq. | 35 |
| V. Catullus Said in Part | 36 ​ |
| The Mathematics of Catullus | 37 |
| Catullus to His Knockers | 38 |
| Handing It to Cynthia | 39 |
| The Beefing of S. Propertius, Esq. | 41 |
| Indorsing a w. k. Emotion | 43 |
| Propertius Confesses | 44 |
| Roman Innuendo | 45 |
| To Julia, on June 21 | 46 |
| Martial’s Bit of a Joke | 47 |
| A Ballade of Known and Unknown Matters | 48 |
| The Translated Way | 50 |
| The Height of Disagreeableness | 53 |
| As to Eyes | 54 |
| The Truth About the Spratts | 55 |
| Campaign Thoughts | 57 |
| Everybody’s Overdoing It | 59 |
| Baseball’s Sad Lexicon | 62 |
| To Myrtilla, on Opening Day | 63 |
| A Ballplayer’s Day | 64 |
| Ever See Her? | 65 |
| A Ballad of Baseball Burdens | 66 |
| John Jones, Clerk | 68 |
| One More | 69 |
| “And the Only Tune That He Could Play” | 70 |
| Thorns, Rifts, Clouds, Flaws, Blemishes, Etc. | 71 |
| “May Recover” | 73 |
| As John Howard Payne Said | 74 |
| For the Other 364 Days | 75 ​ |
| Us Potes | 76 |
| Footlight Motifs | 77 |
| Revised | 82 |
| The Lost Wheeze | 83 |
| From an Awningless Sanctum | 85 |
| “On Christmas Day in the Morning” | 86 |
| From a Paragrapher’s Garden of Verses | 87 |
| Gilbert | 88 |
| Lines to Margaret, a Singing and Whistling Cook | 89 |
| A Pathetic Bit of a Ballad | 90 |
| Song of the Costofliving | 91 |
| The Old Man’s Discomforts | 92 |
| The Fool | 94 |
| To the Wind: After Gilbert’s “To the Terrestrial Globe” | 95 |
| To a Lady Complaining of Solitude | 96 |
| The Pandean Is No Pipe | 97 |
| “The Poems of Eugene Field” | 98 |
| Success | 101 |
| Managerial Tradition | 103 |
| “Christmas Comes but Once a Year” | 104 |
| After Samuel Rogers | 114 |
| The Diplomaniacs | 116 |
| Rondel | 117 |
| To the Waltonian Bards | 118 |
| Triolettuce Salad | 119 |
| The Easy Giggle | 121 |
| The Ballade of the Northern Girl | 123 |
| Lines on the Sabbath | 125 |
| “The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers” | 127 ​ |
| The Exile of Erin | 129 |
| Of Course You Would | 131 |
| True Comfort | 133 |
| To Gelett Burgess | 134 |
| Bacchanalian Songs | 135 |
| On a Certain Propensity of Bootblacks to Toy with the Shoelaces of the Shinee | 136 |
| Christmas Cards | 137 |
| Thanking One and All | 141 |
| Lines in Appreciation of a Lady’s Art | 143 |
| For Cummuters Only | 144 |
| Inept Quotation’s Artificial Aid | 145 |
| Some Speeches | 148 |
| No Trouble to Show Goods | 150 |
The Country Life Press Garden City, N. Y.
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