AN EXCUSE FOR SWEARING.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 163, 3 November 1883, Page 11

AN EXCUSE FOR SWEARING.

Thb Her W says swearing i 3 a lov vulgar habit that does not increase in any way the oratorial powers, or give consolation in grief or pain ; but:— Should he feel that little tin tack Pointing heavenwards from the floor, Or unconsciously his finger Just impede the slamming door, Or when bowing to the ladies Eind his collar button fled, And his collar making efforts To rise above his head. Should he go to take his sweet one To a Sunday night debate, And met her fafcher'ssavage bulldog As he entered at the gate, When his ivory masticators Were imbedded in his pants. Could he spare a solemn moment To indulge in solemn chants ? ... Or were he quite a youth, aspiring To attain high literary fame, And wrote pretty, witty poems On his own adored one's, name, And in hia choicest diction oalled her A pretty, winning, simple lass ; And the printer left the L out, Writing her down a simple ass. Could he kneel before the sanctum, And pray that he should never go To an L (a warmer,, a more cursed Ij), Of which most sagacious pointers knovr.^# • Altho' I've not a doubt a£o,ut it Being vulgar, as 41 m 6ll know, There's a can't about this modesty That pious priests and parsons show. For even a Salvation captain A savage blank cannot forbear 1 „ When he sees the eggs of winter Bound him darkening all the simmer air !

Wantbd Knows.— T. Hart-is, tobaccoaist, ka«f removed to Isaacs* Buildings, Lower Queea-fltreefc.