A FASHIONABLE LOVE SONG.
BY A MAT FAIB CIJIJTAMANIAC.
O my little tea, pot, My tiny ehiney weo pot, , I love my little tea pot vastly better than voj life!
Call me silliest of ninnies, For it cost me fifty puineap, And with that a pretty present I could pur* chase for my wife.
I could buy her a new bonnet, And: an ostrich plume upon it, With a quarter of the money for my tea pot I have paid; But I loved it with such madness That I £aye the price with gladness, And counted myfelf lucky such a purehaao to have made.
My tea pot's spout is broken,
In a whisper be it spoken, And pray don't touch the handle, for 'tis riveted, you see j
In tho side there are cracks, too, And a lid my tea pot lack?, too, And 'tis ugly as 'tis useless in respect of making too,:
Yot I'll nurse my tea pot nightly, Though in shape it is unsightly. And its colours have all vanished like the : flowers of last year j
But I loTe my little tea pot, My tiny chiney wee po*, 'Caus a. it is such a rarity, and 'cause it is so dear. —Punch.-
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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1829, 12 November 1874, Page 2
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206A FASHIONABLE LOVE SONG. Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1829, 12 November 1874, Page 2
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