Part 43 (1/2)

[9: look at]

[10: p.a.w.n]

[11: drink]

[12: Botticelli(?)]

[13: Wagner(?)]

[14: The Corsican Brothers(?)]

[15: Notes]

[16: spend money]

”TOTTIE”

[1887]

[By ”DAGONET” (G. R. SIMS) in _Referee_, 7 Nov.].

I

As she walked along the street With her little 'plates of meat,' [1]

And the summer suns.h.i.+ne falling On her golden 'Barnet Fair,' [2]

Bright as angels from the skies Were her dark blue 'mutton pies.' [3]

In my 'East and West' Dan Cupid [4]

Shot a shaft and left it there.

II

She'd a Grecian 'I suppose,' [5]

And of 'Hampstead Heath' two rows, [6]

In her 'Sunny South' that glistened [7]

Like two pretty strings of pearls; Down upon my 'bread and cheese' [8]

Did I drop and murmur, 'Please Be my ”storm and strife,” dear Tottie, [9]

O, you darlingest of girls!'

III

Then a bow-wow by her side, [10]

Who till then had stood and tried A 'Jenny Lee' to banish, [11]

Which was on his 'Jonah's whale,' [12]

Gave a hydrophobia bark, (She cried, 'What a Noah's Ark!') [13]

And right through my 'rank and riches' [14]

Did my 'cribbage pegs' a.s.sail. [15]

IV

Ere her bull-dog I could stop She had called a 'ginger pop,' [16]

Who said, 'What the ”Henry Meville” [17]

Do you think you're doing there?'

And I heard as off I slunk, 'Why, the fellow's ”Jumbo's trunk!” [18]

And the 'Walter Joyce' was Tottie's [19]