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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1634, 4 December 1874, Page 449

NEIGHBOE NELLY. BOBEBT B. BBOUGH. I'm in love with neighbor Nelly, Though I know she's only ten, . While, alas ! I'm eight-and-forty— And the marriedst of men ! I've a wife who weighs me double, I've three daughters all with beaux I've a son with noble whiskers, Who at me turns up his nose. Though a square-toes and a fogey, Still I've sunshine in my heart: Still I'm fond of cakes and marbles, Can appreciate a tart. I can love my nighbor Nelly Just as though I were a boy : I could hand her nuts and apples From my depths of corduroy. She is tall, and growing taller, She is.vigorous of limb : (You should see her play at cricket With her little brother Jim !) She has eyes as blue as damsons, She has pounds of auburn curls ; She regrets the game of leapfrog Is prohibited to girls. I adore my neighbor Nelly, I invite her in to tea : And I let her nurse the babyAll her pretty ways to see. Such a darling bud of woman, Yet remote from any teens, — I have learnt from neighbor Nelly What the girl's doll-instinct means. Oh, to see her with the baby ! He adores her more than I, — How she choruses his crowing,— How she hushes every cry ! How she loves to pit his dimples With her light forefinger deep, How she boasts to me in triumph When she's got him off to sleep ! We must part, my neighbor Nelly, For the summers quickly flee ; And your middle-aged aimirer Must supplanted qui kly be. Yet as jealous as a mother,— A distempered cankered chivl, I look vainly for the setting To be worthy such a pearl !