Milk in the Cocoanut
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Milk in the Cocoanut is a poem first published in the Milwaukee Sentinel around august 1912.
Editions
- in Milwaukee Sentinel (date ? [US])
- in The Daily Report (Ontario) (5 august 1912 [US]) as Mutual Advertising
- in The San Francisco Examiner (27 august 1912 [US]) as Milk in the Cocoanut
- in The Tacoma Times (4 september 1912 [US]) as Milk in the Cocanut (sic)
Milk in the Cocoanut
Old G. B. Shaw
Awoke and saw
His fame was growing dim.
He drew his foil
On Conan Doyle
And took a thrust at him.
Old Conan Doyle
Began to boil
And set his lower jaw.
His fountain pen
Grew busy then,
Besmirching G. B. Shaw.
And, as they fought
With gems of thought,
Their stock began to rise.
A wise old head
Was his who said:
"It pays to advertise."
— Milwaukee Sentinel.
