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Walt Mason is the Aesop of our day, but his fables are of men, not
animals.
—Collier’s Weekly.
Much of Walt Mason’s poetry is of universal interest.
—London Citizen.
Walt Mason’s poetry is in a class by itself.
—William Jennings Bryan.
Walt’s poems always have sound morals, and they are easy to take.
—Rev. Charles W. Gordon.
(Ralph Connor.)
His satires come with stinging force to the American people.
—Sunday School Times.
Why do people ever write any other kind of books, unless because no one
else can write Walt Mason’s kind?
—William Dean Howells.
His is an extraordinary faculty, surely God-given. Many a world-weary
one, refreshed at the fount where his poetry plays, says deep down in
his heart, “God bless Walt Mason!”
—Seumas MacManus.
Walt Mason’s contributions to the Chronicle have attracted the attention
of English readers by their originality and expressiveness, and have
brought him letters from Mr. John Masefield and many others. Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle regards him as one of the quaintest and most original
humorists America has ever produced.
—London Chronicle.
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[Illustration:
The author as “Zim” sees him
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“HORSE SENSE”