Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 6, No 5
Articles in this issue
- An opening anthology of poetic quotations on the month of July, drawn from Bryant, Thompson, Praed, Emerson, M. Phelps Dawson, Matthews and Waterman.
- A humorous poem by Nixon Waterman wishing that birds would sing their Latin names instead of calls like "Whip-Poor-Will" to ease the nature-student's task.
- A note on Catherine Alsopp, a Sheffield, England washerwoman who hanged herself, reproducing the verse "Here lies a poor woman who always was tired" read at her inquest.
- A question-and-answer reference column covering the source of Kipling's "Lest we forget," geodesy, mules, the Dissenters and Puritans, beet versus cane sugar, wedding speeches and Scottish penny weddings.
- A puzzle feature presenting an anagram puzzle to identify poets and their poems, alongside the answers to a previous tree puzzle.
- A dialect poem by J. C. McNeill on keeping the Sabbath while crows raid the cornpatch; the same page carries a note from 80-year-old L.A.W. member Wm. Wunsch of Allegheny, Pa.
- Lists League of American Wheelmen officers including President Marriott C. Morris and Secretary-Treasurer/Editor Abbot Bassett, and announces the Rhode Island Division annual election and field day at Boyden Heights on July 22, 1908, and the National Assembly meeting September 10.