Caw-Caw Ballads

"Readers who have contacted the genius of Wilson MacDonald through the heroic splendor of his Out of the Wilderness -- a book which has caused critics on both sides of the Atlantic to herald the arrival of a new Whitman on the North American Continent -- will rejoice in the quick, sharp satire of "Caw-Caw Ballads..." *

We leave it up to You, the Reader:

The Pepless Crow
A bearded old crow,
Who had lost his pep,
Said: "Clothes for crows
Is a very wise step."

So "Clothes for Crows"
Was the slogan planned
By the pepless birds
Of Caw-Caw land.

And they passed a bill
That was circumspec',
And ordered all crows
To be dressed to the neck.

And then, when a crow
Went bathing in her skin,
Ten young men crows
Came peeping in.

But the law was repealed
One September morn
For too many little
Black crows were born.

CAW-CAW BALLADS by Wilson MacDonald, (1880 - 1967)The Broadway Press, Buffalo, N.Y., 1930.
*Quotation from dustcover CAW-CAW BALLADS