Humour
They were engaged. She came to him With eyes that glowed as hot as hades And said, with angry look and grim: “ I’m told, sir, you have kissed two ladies!” “Why, darling, how absurd you rage!” He, laughing, cried, “ ’Twas but iu fun ; Together add both maidens’ age ’Twould but amount to twen f y-one !” Her anger soon was laughed away; She only thought of ten and eleven. Her eyes again shone bright as day, Reflecting there the lover’s heaven. Oh, rogue ! Though what you said was true’ She did not know the tiUths betwe*n, That one of them was only two, The other temptress—sweet nineteen.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 2, 14 April 1894, Page 10
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107Humour Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 2, 14 April 1894, Page 10
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