Oil a Dance Programme.
We sat it oat upon the stairs— I’m not a dancing man— They played the brick M Mikado airs, I trifled with her fan. The fateful words were hard to say— I’m not a fluent man— I would begin with something gay - * A pun about a fan. It would not come, that little joke— I’m not a punning man— . The moments flew j I clutched and broke Her dainty feathered fan. “The cost of it I “Ithought,dismayed— I’m not a moneyed man— The band the final figure played; I figured on that fan. The dance was over, and she rose— I’m not a ready man— But seized the moment to propose— That I should mend her fan. I thought it out upon the stairs; She—took some other man; And I have with me for repairs A broken heart- and fan. Asthuk W, Geundy.
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Evening Star, Issue 7355, 29 October 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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147Oil a Dance Programme. Evening Star, Issue 7355, 29 October 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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