What Happened to a Valentine.
Young Julius. Tones loved Susan ? lade, And oft in dulcet tones He vainly had besaught the maid To take the name of Jones. " Wert thou but solid, then, be sure, 'Twould be all right," said she ; ♦♦ But Mr J., whilst thou art poor, Pray think no more of me." Poor Jones was sad ; his coat was bad, His salary was worse ; But hope suggested : Jones, my lad, Just try the power of verse 1" He sat him down and wrote in rhyme How she was in her spring. And he in summer's golden prime ; And all that sort of thing. The poem praised her hair and eyes Her lips with honey laden, He wound it up, up in the skies, And mailed it to the maiden She read it over, kept it clean , Put on her finest raiment, And took it to a magazine And got ten dollars payment
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Manawatu Herald, 7 May 1892, Page 3
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154What Happened to a Valentine. Manawatu Herald, 7 May 1892, Page 3
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