MANY MISSES.
On my youthful misfortunes I don't care to dwell, But, oh, how I suffered from that minx, Miss Spell ! She plagued me with words that to write I was ill able, And a poly-twigged birch avenged each polysyllable. Then at twenty or so I grew wise, as I thought, And the suction of eggs to my grandmother taught ; I fancied myself the first man in the nationBeing utterly humbugged by Hi&s Information. Whenever by rail any journey I make, There's that girl that will go with me, stupid Miss Takk : And if all the Rothschilds I'd blow to Old Harry, On 'Change I am certain to meet with Miss Carry. Miss Nomer sends wrong all my letters, I know ; I can't get a kiss from my dear Miss L. Toe : And when I write verse with nn epigram in't, 'Tis spoilt by that feminine typo., Miss Print.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1204, 26 December 1874, Page 21
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149MANY MISSES. Otago Witness, Issue 1204, 26 December 1874, Page 21
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