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Page 131
... smile and flirt , Alas ! he won't propose . I've tried to win by languishing , And dressing like a blue ; I've bought big books and talked of them As if I'd read them through ! With hair cropp'd like a man I've felt The heads of all the ...
... smile and flirt , Alas ! he won't propose . I've tried to win by languishing , And dressing like a blue ; I've bought big books and talked of them As if I'd read them through ! With hair cropp'd like a man I've felt The heads of all the ...
Page 649
... smile it was pensive and childlike , As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye . 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 And me in a ...
... smile it was pensive and childlike , As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye . 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 And me in a ...
Page 651
... smile and said he was at fault , It seemed he had been trespassing on Jones's family vault ; He was a most sarcastic man , this quiet Mr. Brown , And on several occasions he had cleaned out the town . Now , I hold it is not decent for a ...
... smile and said he was at fault , It seemed he had been trespassing on Jones's family vault ; He was a most sarcastic man , this quiet Mr. Brown , And on several occasions he had cleaned out the town . Now , I hold it is not decent for a ...
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