THE SPOONERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6678, 28 November 1908, Page 12

THE SPOONERS

Together wo sat in a tete-a-tete, ''SSjV The prettiest girl and' I. , ' Wf\ The light was out and the hour wuslator For time, you know, will liyl By Jovq How rapidly time will fly! i Together we sat in the welcome gloom*’ Alone, unheard, unseen, , I Though her mother was in tlioothcrrooa With a thin jjprtiero between. | I know that tho mother in ambushs4ay-< As mothrs do, it seeme— To carry the prettiest girl aw-ay, A Aw*ay to the laud iof dreams. By J To .the wonderful land of dreams. But the cherry-likc lips of tho pretty miss Alas, wore a tempting eight, U, : 1 And, what do you think? She Just one, before “Good night." ; s . But the prettiest girl resented thaij Sla a way I’d never dreamed, \ For she airily sprang from where we eat And, what do yon think She screamed j By Jove 1 Sho certainly did—sho screamed I , I caught the coquette in my arms—Alack For such is the way of men I And gruffly demanded of her a. smook^ And then—and then—and then Her mother came cruelly in with a .light And —what do you think she said? “Oh, come little-lady, kiss daddy good* night,” And carried her off to bod, by jovol And carried the babe to bed! - —"Bohemian Magazine."