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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.
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.
(American, 1872 - 1938)

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.

Watercolor and ink on illustration board
ca. 1915
11 1/8 × 14 1/8 in. (28.3 × 35.9 cm)
2005.15.24
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 #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.
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 #2 | Poor Tom began to whine and shake | When with his spells the Wizard bound him | And set on him a monstrous snake | Which coiled its ugly self around him.
Plate #2 | Poor Tom began to whine and shake | When with his spells the Wizard bound him | And set on him a monstrous snake | Which coiled its ugly self around him.
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
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 #35 | What's this? Ah yes, who can forget | This brute of obstinacy mulish, | The Mo-non-go-halian Slith-e-ret | Whose attitude is always foolish!
Plate #35 | What's this? Ah yes, who can forget | This brute of obstinacy mulish, | The Mo-non-go-halian Slith-e-ret | Whose attitude is always foolish!
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 #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
Plate #30 | Now for another pang acute | Of flight perchance we should bethink us | For here's the husky Hipponoot | Conspiring with the Whirl-o-dinkus.
Plate #30 | Now for another pang acute | Of flight perchance we should bethink us | For here's the husky Hipponoot | Conspiring with the Whirl-o-dinkus.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
Plate #19 | Here tangled in another loop | Are Wampuses of both Sexes; | And right behind the Chick-a-hoop | With circus stunts the mind perplexes.
Plate #19 | Here tangled in another loop | Are Wampuses of both Sexes; | And right behind the Chick-a-hoop | With circus stunts the mind perplexes.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915
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 #25 | And now -- 'Tis hard to grasp the fact -- | The Snake with extra-ordinary | Good nature, does a clothes-line act | To please the plump Do-mesti-cary.
Plate #25 | And now -- 'Tis hard to grasp the fact -- | The Snake with extra-ordinary | Good nature, does a clothes-line act | To please the plump Do-mesti-cary.
Royal Lacey Scoville
ca. 1915