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Plate #32 | Note, as these soldiers onward trot, | The Tortopoise keeps backward facing | While Nantipus and Mrs. Lot | Both follow suit in style debasing.
Plate #32 | Note, as these soldiers onward trot, | The Tortopoise keeps backward facing | While Nantipus and Mrs. Lot | Both follow suit in style debasing.
Plate #32 | Note, as these soldiers onward trot, | The Tortopoise keeps backward facing | While Nantipus and Mrs. Lot | Both follow suit in style debasing.
(American, 1872 - 1938)

Plate #32 | Note, as these soldiers onward trot, | The Tortopoise keeps backward facing | While Nantipus and Mrs. Lot | Both follow suit in style debasing.

Watercolor and ink on illustration board
ca. 1915
11 1/8 × 14 1/8 in. (28.3 × 35.9 cm)
2005.15.32
Dedicated to the memory of Eleanore Shannon Scoville Wells, daughter of Royal Lacy Scoville, gift of Jonathan Godfrey Wells III and Peter Scoville Wells Sr., 2005
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Plate #7 | Next with his throat within a noose | (Let's hope that it will choke him later) | Appears without the least excuse | The sanguinary Growl-i-gator.
Plate #7 | Next with his throat within a noose | (Let's hope that it will choke him later) | Appears without the least excuse | The sanguinary Growl-i-gator.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #24 | Worse yet, he heard the Chug-chug toot | A jungle tune. The Goozie listened | And upside down, the Tel-o-scoot | Took in the noise with eyes that glistened.
Plate #24 | Worse yet, he heard the Chug-chug toot | A jungle tune. The Goozie listened | And upside down, the Tel-o-scoot | Took in the noise with eyes that glistened.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #21 | Here Tompkins hastens to implore | A moment's mercy and compassion | Since he beholds the Checkery Bore | Advance, roped up in corkscrew fashion.
Plate #21 | Here Tompkins hastens to implore | A moment's mercy and compassion | Since he beholds the Checkery Bore | Advance, roped up in corkscrew fashion.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
The Supplicant Cora had cast herself to her knees; and, with hands clenched in each other and pressed upon her bosom, she remained like a beauteous and breathing model of her sex
The Supplicant Cora had cast herself to her knees; and, with hands clenched in each other and pressed upon her bosom, she remained like a beauteous and breathing model of her sex
N.C. Wyeth
1919
Plate #5 | Another coil enclosed the frame | Of one who danced a queer fandango, | A freak that always signs her name | Like this; Ma'm'selle Oran-go-Tango.
Plate #5 | Another coil enclosed the frame | Of one who danced a queer fandango, | A freak that always signs her name | Like this; Ma'm'selle Oran-go-Tango.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #29 | In quick succession comes a group | Of Yammies straight from Yam-a-moto | The Foozlewugs, the Roll-a-hoop | And last of all the William-gotoe.
Plate #29 | In quick succession comes a group | Of Yammies straight from Yam-a-moto | The Foozlewugs, the Roll-a-hoop | And last of all the William-gotoe.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #36 | Here Cary-at-ides obese, uphold, | (This way they earn their boodle) | A beast of most ungainly mold, | The gentle, twisted Por-cun-oodle.
Plate #36 | Here Cary-at-ides obese, uphold, | (This way they earn their boodle) | A beast of most ungainly mold, | The gentle, twisted Por-cun-oodle.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #27 | Looped up for keeps, the next in line | Along the route proceeds to mosey. | His perfect curvature of spine | Proves him to be the Ring-a-rosy.
Plate #27 | Looped up for keeps, the next in line | Along the route proceeds to mosey. | His perfect curvature of spine | Proves him to be the Ring-a-rosy.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #26 | Here laboring to wheel across | His bright young Hopeful in a barrow | We see the stern Sham-poot-er-os, | To tell whose deeds would freeze your marrow.
Plate #26 | Here laboring to wheel across | His bright young Hopeful in a barrow | We see the stern Sham-poot-er-os, | To tell whose deeds would freeze your marrow.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
The Social Zoo (2)
The Social Zoo (2)
Rockwell Kent
1918
Plate #8 | Behind him, skipping on its toes, | (Please do not ask me where its face is) | The Polynesian Wig-wag shows | A ballet dancer's airs and graces.
Plate #8 | Behind him, skipping on its toes, | (Please do not ask me where its face is) | The Polynesian Wig-wag shows | A ballet dancer's airs and graces.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #28 | Gaze on this hammock fiend; Yon can't | Except with laughter shaking | Observe the lazy Trunc-o-phant | His afternoon siesta taking.
Plate #28 | Gaze on this hammock fiend; Yon can't | Except with laughter shaking | Observe the lazy Trunc-o-phant | His afternoon siesta taking.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915