02229cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000320011324500250014524600560017026400510022630000470027733600260032433700260035033800360037650000310041250000310044350801880047452010350066253400540169765300200175185600580177185600430182999900190187277690UtSlPG20260610134811.0mcr n260607r20261906utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aHerford, Oliver,d1863-193512aA bold bad butterfly1 aA bold bad butterfly :  and other fables and verses 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aIllustrated by the author.  aRelease date is 2026-01-13  aDavid 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.)  aA 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.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Gay and Bird, 1906  aHumorous poetry4 uhttp://www.archive.org/details/throughlookinggl00carr40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77690  c118410d118410