Mandalay, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Danny Deever, show what spirited verse can be fashioned from a common ballad meter and a bold use of dialect.

"So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen, but a first class fightin' man; An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air You big black boundin' beggarfor you broke a British square!" Much of his verse is political.

"So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen, but a first class fightin' man; An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air You big black boundin' beggarfor you broke a British square!" Much of his verse is political.

From his poems read Mandalay, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Danny Deever, The 'Eathen, Ballad of East and West, Recessional, The White Man's Burden; also Song of the Banjo, and L'Envoi from Seven Seas, published by Doubleday, Page and Company.

"It seems to be worse than ever," and he rubbed his leg and tried to get up, but he couldn't leave the chair, even with his crutch, which Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy had gnawed for him out of a cornstalk.

"But I could swim more if nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy was here to show me," and then he couldn't talk any more, for his mouth was full of water.

A pity the sharks should have so fair a bodyand we starve!" and he turned a fatherly benevolent eye on Moussa Isawhom a tall slender black Arab, from the hills about Port Sudan, of the true "fuzzy-wuzzy" type, had seized in his thin but Herculean arms as the boy rose to spring into the toni and paddle to the rescue of his benefactor.

The Dar-es-Salaam merchant threw Fuzzy Wuzzy a coil of cord and Moussa Isa (who struggled, kicked, bit and finding resistance hopeless, screamed, "Follow the boat, Master," as he lay on his back), was bound to a cracked and salt-encrusted beam or seat that supported, or was supported by, the cracked and salt-encrusted sides of the canoe-shaped vessel.

And that was the race," grimly, "when the dear little Fuzzy-wuzzy Lap Dogs, as you call them, made the record time, and we came in third.

Fuzzy wuzzy kitten.

By Zillah Lesko (Fuzzy wuzzy book, 940) © 20Jan48; AA39591.

Fuzzy wuzzy farm animals.

(A Fuzzy wuzzy book) © 12Jul48; AA90463.

R611019. Chickaree, the fuzzy wuzzy squirrel.

Scooterthe fuzzy wuzzy puppy.

Paddy, the fuzzy wuzzy duckling.

Fuzzy wuzzy kitten.

By Zillah Lesko (Fuzzy wuzzy book, 940) © 20Jan48; AA39591.

Fuzzy wuzzy farm animals.

(A Fuzzy wuzzy book) © 12Jul48; AA90463.

R611019. Chickaree, the fuzzy wuzzy squirrel.

Scooterthe fuzzy wuzzy puppy.

Paddy, the fuzzy wuzzy duckling.