Excerpt: ““Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad” …The second, well he was a rubber-doll, who talked through a whistling hat. His speech ran over with folderol, but his jokes they were never at. He squeaked and creaked with his heart care-free, such things as this tale will tell, but whether asleep or at work was he The little maid loved him well….”
John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. (Wikipedia)