THE LAY OF THE HENPECKED.
I'm sitting in a style, Mary, — Whir:h doesn't coincide With what I've been accustom'd to Since you became my bride ; The mpn are singing comic songs, The lark gets loud and high, For I've, asked — since you're from home, Mary — A party on the sly. The place is rather chang'd, Mary, Ot smoke it slightly smells, And the table and the floor are strewn With heaps of oyster shells ; And the men have marked your damask chairs With many a muddy streak, ' And they've drawn burnt cork moustaches on Your mother's portrait's .cheek. I'm very jolly now, Mary, 'Midst old and valued friends, • (Though they've in your carpet burnt some holes With their Havannahs'ends). • For-thou wert somewhat cross with me, And ever apt to chide ; : But there's nothing left to care for now You're gone to the sea-side. ' ' ' • And yet I fear when all you've learot, This evening's work I'll rue; And I'll not forget it.' darling, for , ; . You won't allow me to. , . In yain .they sing. 'The Pope -he/leads i— ' ; Likewise .'Begone, dull care;', .., . For at thought of you I vow I can't -/. ' , . Sit easy in'my chair.,; .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 293, 11 December 1867, Page 2
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193THE LAY OF THE HENPECKED. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 293, 11 December 1867, Page 2
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