Corrected galley proof of nonsense poem by 'M. S.' [the Faber & Faber production manager Montague Shaw?] entitled 'Cowkeeper's Tune'.

The text area is about 13.5 x 30 cm, on the top half of a slip of paper around twice as long. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The lower half of the slip is blank apart from the pagination 196. Headed 'EPILOGUE | COWKEEPER'S TUNE', and beginning 'Unless your window is fitted with very strong iron bars and, just to make sure, your window locks, | Do not attempt to keep a Dexter cow in your window box.' Signed in type at end 'M. S.' With footnote: 'The poet, whose manhood is lay rather than herds, now realizes that Dexter cows are black, but begs the traditional licence of his craft, and pleads the neat rhyme to palliate the pedants.' Identity of author and details of publication unknown, but from the papers of Faber & Faber production manager Montague Shaw.