Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 5
Articles in this issue
- A comic poem complaining that the July weather is "too blooming hot for anything," opening this July 1907 issue.
- A humorous poem by M. Phelps Dawson about a boy battered and bandaged from his Fourth of July fireworks celebrations who still wishes every day were the Fourth.
- A poem in which a youth woos a girl in a Holworthy window seat on Harvard class day, only for her whispered "Yes" to be deflated by the added "That's six today!"
- A cycling poem set to the "Glory Hallelujah" chorus, celebrating the joy of the rider on his swiftly flying wheel and inviting brothers and sisters out for a country run.
- A nostalgic comic poem recalling a youthful berry-picking expedition beset by thorns, snakes, wasps and the farmer's dog, the speaker now content to "berry" in a store.
- A reader question-and-answer feature covering the source of "here today and gone tomorrow" (Tristram Shandy), how fishes breathe, the definition of a saint, the usage of "pair," and calcium carbide, plus a who-am-I puzzle.
- League of American Wheelmen report listing the 1907-08 officers (President Wm. B. Everett; Secretary-Treasurer and Editor Abbot Bassett) and announcing the National Assembly meeting of Sept. 12, the Wheel About the Hub tour, and Wheelman's Day in Boston on Aug. 3d.