I was looking for a bit of nonsense to lift the mood brought on by such dismal weather. Where best to start than with Arnold Silcock’s
Verse & Worse. I was delighted to find this one. It is attributed to an anonymous author & was published in
Canadian Good Housekeeping
The * Itself Has A History
An author owned an asterisk
And kept it in his den
Where he wrote tales which had large sales
Of erring maids & men,
And always, when he reached the point
Where carping censors lurk,
He called upon the asterisk
To do his dirty work!
