Sir Guy the Crusader Guy saw her, and loved her, with reason, Sent him mad with delight; He purchased a stall for the season And sat in it every night. His views were exceedingly proper, So he called at her shed And saw her progenitor whop her- "So pretty," said he, "and so trusting! You brute of a dad, You unprincipled cad, Your conduct is really disgusting, Come, come, now admit it's too bad! "You're a turbaned old Turk, and malignantYour daughter Lenore I intensely adore, And I cannot help feeling indignant, A fact that I hinted before; To see a fond father employing For to bang her about, To a sensitive lover's annoying." Said the bagman, "Crusader, get out." Says Guy, "Shall a warrior laden With a big spiky knob Sit in peace on his cob, While a beautiful Saracen maiden "To London I'll go from my charmer." Which he did, with his loot (Seven hats and a flute), And was nabbed for his Sydenham armour 645 Sir Guy he was lodged in the Compter; Died (don't know his age); His daughter she married the prompter, W. S. Gilbert. KITTY WANTS TO WRITE KITTY wants to write! Kitty intellectual! What has been effectual to turn her stockings blue? Kitty's seventh season has brought sufficient reason, She has done 'most everything that there is left to do! Half of them to laugh about and half of them to rue,Now we wait in terror for Kitty's wildest error. What has she to write about? Wheeeeeeeeew! Kitty wants to write! Débutante was Kitty, A leader whom the chaperons indulged a year or two; Kitty wants to write! At the Social Settlement Kitty wants to write! Kitty was a mystic, Dighton Is Engaged Kitty wants to write! Kitty was a doctor; 647 Nothing ever shocked her, though they hazed a little, too! Kitty learned of medicos how a heart unsteady goes, Besides a score of secrets that are secrets still to you. Kitty's course in medicine gave her many a clueMuch of modern history now is less a mystery. What has she to write about? Wheeeeeeeeew! Kitty wants to write! Everybody's writing! Won't it be exciting, the panic to ensue? We who all have known her, think what we have shown her! Read it in the magazines! Which half of this is true? Where did she get that idea? Is it him, or who?— Kitty's wretched enemies now will learn what venom is! What has she to write about? Wheeeeeeeeew! Gelett Burgess. DIGHTON IS ENGAGED! DIGHTON is engaged! Think of it and tremble! "Dighton is a gentleman; will Dighton be discreet?" Dighton is engaged! Think of it, Corinna! Now that dream is over and the episode is dead. Dighton never harried you after Charlie married you; Dighton is a gentleman-but Dighton is to wed! Dighton is engaged! Think of it, Bettina! Did you ever love him when the sport was rather keener? Dighton was impressible, you were quite accessible- Dighton is engaged! Tremble, Mrs. Alice! When he comes no longer will you bear the lady malice? Now he comes to dinner, and he smokes cigars with Clint, But he never makes a blunder and he never drops a hint; He's a universal uncle, with a welcome everywhere, He adopts his sweetheart's children and he lets 'em pull his hair. Dighton has a memory bright and sharp as emery, He could tell them fairy stories that would make you rather red! Dighton can be trusted, though; Dighton's readjusted, though! Dighton is a gentleman-but Dighton is to wed! Gelett Burgess. PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES TABLE MOUNTAIN, 1870 WHICH I wish to remark And my language is plain- And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain. Plain Language from Truthful James Ah Sin was his name; And I will not deny In regard to the same What that name might imply; But his smile it was pensive and childlike, It was August the third; And quite soft was the skies: Which it might be inferred That Ah Sin was likewise; Yet he played it that day upon William Which we had a small game, It was Euchre. The same He did not understand; But he smiled as he sat by the table, With a smile that was childlike and bland. Yet the cards they were stocked In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked At the state of Nye's sleeve: Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, But the hands that were played And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see Till at last he put down a right bower, Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And he rose with a sigh, We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour-" 649 |