Word: doggereleer
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Smith's Mary Ellen Chase, 68, silver-thatched, silver-tongued bestselling author (Silas Crockett, Mary Peters}, whose courses in English literature have long borne, by Smith custom, the proud and simple label, "Chase," and whose domestically detailed quizzes have been immortalized by a bit of campus doggerel: "What were the colors of Pamela's socks ?/Long white jobs with classy clocks./What did Don Quixote masticate ?/Old fried pidgeon served up in state." Whether reading Pater aloud by her own fireside, working out a Latin anagram, or putting her students through their paces in class, Teacher Chase...
...they had taken his razor from him) and a cheerful account of life in a Communist jail. "The Communists went out of their way to treat me good," he said. His friends quipped that the Reds let him go because they couldn't feed him, and composed affectionate doggerel about the mock-heroic legend...
...Ohio River town of Cresap's Landing sing that song except John and Pearl Harper. And they have reason: their bank-robbing father is in Moundsville Prison waiting to be hanged. Before The Night of the Hunter has gone many pages, Ben Harper lives out the doggerel and swings for his crimes. The secret and, eventually, the terror around which Author Grubb's skin-prickling first novel unfolds is: What did Ben Harper do with the $10,000 in crisp, green 100s that he killed two bank clerks...
...stay at Columbia College in Eugene. Ore. lasted only three months and no records survived, but Joaquin always said that he was valedictorian of his class. He soon added horse-stealing, jail-breaking, and pony express riding to his postgraduate skills. Already writing doggerel himself, he was bowled over by the newspaper poems of one Minnie Myrtle, "Sweet Singer of the Coquille." Joaquin met, wooed and won Minnie in three days...
There is strong internal evidence that one of these books, And I Learn About People, was actually written by a cocker spaniel named Delmar W. Beman Sr. The author writes as a dog, in the first person, sometimes even breaks into doggerel. Sample verses to a watchdog: Watching o'er one's mind and soul, / Watching o'er one's kin and friend, / Make time and living worth the while, / Breed strength and sureness / And warmness of smile...