Leap Year—1908.

Free Lance, Volume VIII, Issue 397, 8 February 1908, Page 9

Leap Year— l9oB.

"Why don't the men propose?" The silly papers ask, And in. hysteric prose Take* bashful men to task. They now must change their tune And take the gixls to task, For now, with Leap Year's boon, Their turn has come to ask. "Will you be mine, kind sir?" Our fancy hears them say, And it would be a slur For man to answer "Nay!" He cannot put it off, Time brooks not a delay, And he will earn a scoft Unless he answers "Yea." The remedy is plain To cure man's diffidence, And set up once again Hymeneal diligence , Instead of one in four And centuries once in eight, Let us to make 'em more Each year a Leap Year rate.