02229cam a22003373u 4500 77690 UtSlPG 20260610134811.0 m cr n 260607r20261906utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Herford, Oliver, 1863-1935 A bold bad butterfly A bold bad butterfly : and other fables and verses Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Illustrated by the author. Release date is 2026-01-13 David Edwards, Tom Trussel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) A bold bad butterfly by Oliver Herford is a collection of whimsical fables and light verse written in the early 20th century. Playfully illustrated, it uses talking animals, flowers, and mythical figures to satirize vanity, gossip, pretension, and fashion, offering gentle morals in bright, comic vignettes. The poems follow a parade of charming misadventures: a “bold bad” butterfly’s pose leads to a collector’s pin; a crafty lion turns politics to his advantage; a poet’s song finally makes a princess sleep; a financial “corner in curls” unravels; and a hypnotic serpent fatally mistakes a hat ornament for prey. Elsewhere flowers bicker, stage circuses, and spread scandal; scarecrows pine for crows; mermaids debate umbrellas; rabbits compete by fleeing; dragons invent princesses to lure knights; and foxes outwit a touring lion. Throughout, the book delights in wordplay, reversals, and light morals that gently mock human follies while celebrating imagination. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: London: Gay and Bird, 1906 Humorous poetry http://www.archive.org/details/throughlookinggl00carr https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77690 118410 118410