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_Chimneysmoke_

[Illustration: Chimneysmoke]

_By Christopher Morley_

CHIMNEYSMOKE HIDE AND SEEK THE ROCKING HORSE SONGS FOR A LITTLE HOUSE MINCE PIE

_New York: George H. Doran Company_

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_This hearth was built for thy delight,_ _For thee the logs were sawn,_ _For thee the largest chair, at night,_ _Is to the chimney drawn._

_For thee, dear lass, the match was lit,_ _To yield the ruddy blaze--_ _May Jack Frost give us joy of it_ _For many, many days._]

=_Chimneysmoke_=

_by_

_Christopher Morley_

[Illustration: Fireside Chair]

_Illustrated by_ _Thomas Fogarty_

_Garden City New York_ _Doubleday, Page & Co._ _1927_

COPYRIGHT, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921 BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

_"How can I turn from any fire_ _On any man's hearthstone?_ _I know the wonder and desire_ _That went to build my own."_

--RUDYARD KIPLING, "_The Fires_"

_Author's Note_

There are a number of poems in this collection that have not previously appeared in book form. But, as a few readers may discern, many of the verses are reprinted from _Songs for a Little House_(1917), _The Rocking Horse_ (1919) and _Hide and Seek_ (1920). There is also one piece revived from the judicious obscurity of an early escapade, _The Eighth Sin_, published in Oxford in 1912. It is on Mr. Thomas Fogarty's delightful and sympathetic drawings that this book rests its real claim to be considered a new venture. To Mr. Fogarty, and to Mr. George H. Doran, whose constant kindness and generosity contradict all the