Perhaps he was not Asleep
The old man Bnored on his corn-husk bed, And dreamed of rails and fodder and grain, Bat his daughter watched by her window- Bill For the gay young man to come up the lane 0, love is mighty— and bolts are weak To restrain a fellow that believes in cheek. " Hither, my dove," in soft tones cats* From under her window. Out in the night She slid from a clothes-line ; all prepared. Ana in less than a minute was out of tight, While the rowdy old owl sans ont •' too hoo 1" And they both skeddled too Kalamazoo. The sun was up and the old man woke, He miseed bis daughter and saw the racketAs he spied a note in her vacant room, Stuck in the crack of a walnut bracket. He read it Blowty and quietly said : " Doggone good *Jiing that I went to bed." —Philadelphia Newt.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 14 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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190Perhaps he was not Asleep Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 14 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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