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" Come right in. How are yont, Fred ? - Find a chair, and get a light. " " Well, old man /recovered yet From the Mather's jam last night ?" " Didn't dance The German's old." ''Didn't 3)011 ? I had to leadAwful bWre ! Did you go home ?" " No. Sat it oh* write Afolly Meade.- --" Jolly little girl she is— Said she didn't care to dance,' 'D rather sit and talk to me, Then she gave me such a glance ! So, when you had cleaved the room, And impounded all the chairs, Having nowhere else, we two Tcok possesalou of the stairs.- --! " I was ota the lower step, I , Molly on the next above ; Gave tcta her bouquet to li'ofct, Aak'd me' to' updo her glove: Then of cou'fte 1 squeezed her ho!n& Talk'd about mj ttffefced Kfej ' All ! if I could only wiii Some true woman for my wife,How I'd love her — work for her ! Hand in hand through life we'd WaltNo one ever cared for me—' Takes a girl, that kind of tali. " Then, yon know, I used my eyes— fifce believed me, every word 1 Said ' I mustn't talk so'— Jove ! Such a volfia you never beard. Gave me some symbolic flow*, ' Had a meaning, oh, so 1 sweet—' Don't know where it is, Tut sure j Must have dropp'd it in the street* How I spooned ! and she, ha ! ha. Well, I know it wasn't rightBut she pitied me so much That I— kissed her— pass a light."
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3871, 13 March 1877, Page 2
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246HE. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3871, 13 March 1877, Page 2
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