NOTICE TO SINGLE LADIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XV, 13 October 1894, Page 360

NOTICE TO SINGLE LADIES.

BY OUR TAME POET. Whene’er I take my walks abroad How many girls I see Whose youthful fancy lightly turns To thoughts of love and me. And since I am a gentle bard, And loth to give them pain, I think I’ll have to emigrate Ere leap-year comes again. I try co walk with downcast gaze, Despite their tender sighs, Because I know what danger lurks Within my azure eyes. My flaxen hair inspires their souls With admiration vain ; I’ll have to have it closely cropped Ere leap-year comes again. I know, I know, they long to soothe My wan, poetic brow ; I know, besides, that if they did, There’d be a jolly row. So 1 shall have to demonstrate, To make the matter plain, With Mrs Poet, and the twins, Ere leap-year comes again. MEDICAL ABBREVIATION. The medico was witty. Polite and handsome, too. The patient fair and pretty. With eyes of witching blue, ‘ Now r , Doctor, please, what ails me ?’ Her hand he tried to steal; ‘ My heart, it sometimes fails me ’— That pulse took long to feel! ■ ’Twill be a life-long study,’ He said in accents quaint. And added.’ though so ruddy, I've caught your heart’s complaint!’ And as she thought he mock’d her. To make his meaning clear He cried, ‘ Don’t call me ‘ Doctor,’ But shorten it to ■ Dr.!’