THE BACHELOR'S CHRISTMAS DINNER.
I'm blile as fsifcit dinner, ; ; With loneliness, too, I sigh, Though there's three of ua h'«re ; together, The waifcar, the turkey, aud L $6 listen to someone talking I'd give of my hard-earned pelf-; Bub the turkey can't, and tho waiter
sha'n't, And I talk to myself ! I miss the rustle of luoas, , The blush, and the deep blue bye, The prettiest of tho faces, Like ft dream of the d»ys gone-by, What folly to live like a hermit— I'll ask her to-night, that's flitHi, w»iter! Gall mi a hansom, And bring me my coat and hat ■!
Mrs. Vioar : How's your husband to-, p&y, Mr*. O'Mory? $Er&. O'Mory : Well l£&'aaV, the doctor to bay that if he lives to got well he'll be, all tight, btrt if bo dont hfe'll d.e.
The bore : Do you know, Tennyson k p o3ms alw»ys carry ms awaycompletely.. The Hostess-: I'm Bo'sorsy *<e haven't a cqpy in W* e house.
F.rst Small Boy* Johnny Smith'*; Mother's awful good to biui. - * Second tfwall -|oy : WWs she done? Frat Small Boy :'Leb hini have the mo*sl«Blfce4aysQbjoolo)fiea<idx . , ,
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 145, 24 December 1901, Page 3
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184THE BACHELOR'S CHRISTMAS DINNER. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 145, 24 December 1901, Page 3
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