Leap Year.
Nice room, Other tactics Easy chair, Thought she'd try. Old bach Sitting there. Years you've called Every night, Old bach Ab if you had Begins to snore, Perfect right. Gentle rap At the door. Why you came Lord only knows. Enter maid Never once Bather old, Did you propose. With a look of Love untold. Now 'tis Leap Year, By heaven above, Converse awhile I shall tell you This and that, Of my love. Close by him Old maid sat. Then there was An awful crash, Soon she talked He had leaped Sentimental, Through the sash. He didn't care Continental. Funeral next day At eleven, She got mad, Old bach Began to cry, Safe in heaven.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1866, 21 June 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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118Leap Year. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1866, 21 June 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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