Poetry. How it Happened;

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2036, 25 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

Poetry. How it Happened;

doioa'h stoic:. Yth, it happened all froo mo 1 This is bow it oorae about : Paul was going off to sea, 'Causa our Kate »wd him foil out. Kate was in the soul quadrangle, Looking for her silver bangle; Nip and I were running by, And we heard her cry and cry. There ware riOM, and roses, too, All about the old stone gate, And wo hided, and peeked froo, And we saw my siiter Kate Take her pretty diamond looket— Cousin Paul'i gift— out her pocket, And ihe kisied the picture in it 'Boat a hundred times a minute I We were sorrow as could be 1 And we tried to rkurry past--(Nip'i my turly dojr, you seo)--But a rose \>*n»r hold mo 't< , Thtn I saw my «ou-«in r*ud Peeking over the '"•» ry *Ml, And lie looked i«o -white and grim I wm 'most afrau* oi him I 80 we cuddled down at* dote Aa two mouses in the dark, And I pinched poor Nippy's nose 80 he couldn't growl or bark, While he watched 'em : oonsin Paul Leaning on the rosery wall, And Kate, solemn as oould be, Letting on ihe didn't see 1 He was staring down at her, Bat she wouldn't look or speak ; Bo I gave the Tines a w^irr, Ana began to lnur 1 «. j shriekWhile we scftiupp'-d ■«. and hid — Katydid! Ko'jdi*! Katy kissed '.he pietty locket She s got M^od in her pocket I By and by we heard 'em talk, Coaain Paul and sister Kate, Coming down the Laurel<walk, Froo the old quadrangle gate ; They were stepping 'long as s-l-o-w— And his arm was round her, so — And I heard him ask her — well, Gneis I promised not to tell 1 Emma Alice Browne, in New York Ledger.