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THE MOUNTAINEER’S FATHER WILLIAM. “YOU are old, Father William,” the young man said, “ And your waistcoat is awfully tight, And yet you persistently plough up Sty Head, Do you think, at your age, it is right?” “In the days of my youth,” Father William replied, “T fostered each Sybarite taste ; But now I strive hard my tum-tum to retard, By wasting to limit my waist!” “ You are old, Father William,” the young man cried, “ Relinquish a passion so dread ! Lay ice axe and rope and dementia aside !— Remember the years o’er your head!” “In the days o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
THE MOUNTAINEER’S FATHER WILLIAM 55 “In the days of my youth (Young men w// be young men), I was peaked on my skill at Peak-et! And the muscular strength (which I didn’t use then) Comes in for a subsequent day!” “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “Yet your tongue is as trusty as ever; You consistently lie in a manner that I Consider infernally clever!” “T have answered three questions, and that is enough, Come on, if you’re coming at all! Pi hold you—this Buckingham’s capital stuff— I'll hold—but I’m hanged if I’ll haul!”
1904 · PDF PAGE 31
…ception. I Propose to mention musically The pleasures of a lazy laze With aspic and with strawberry And lots of Salmon Mayonnaise. One’s father may be much unnerved When, like a pigeon (pigeon-pie ! — Smack, lips!) that elegant and curved Comes homing through the summer sky, The kitchen bill before his eye Looms. Grammar? Do you think to raise Grammar on wines divinely dry And lots of Salmon Mayonnaise ? I was about to ask—Lunch served ? Right! I am coming—to ask why These innocent delights deserved From Solomon the old and sly 19
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
…TENTS MOUNTAIN AIRS, VERY APPROPRIATE! The Alps . Hut v. Hotel “ Bitte, Herr, Bezahlen ! ” Mathematician, ne’er forget The Mountaineer’s Father William The Traverse of the Aiguilles Rouges . MIXED BISCUITS To a Heteromita Rostrata Principally Remigial How to do a Rechauffé . The Village Champions . Two Sonnets in Praise of a Publisher To an Unappreciative University Sappho in Chic-a-go A Rondel . . A Sonnet of Spring Fashions Mary Rogers. - Ode to Gerald Festus Kelly A Rondel . . The Chemist’s Love-Song Bal Masqué Lines in Spring . , Au Theatre…
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
…isers, is a charming little drama. An ingénue comes by accident into possession of a letter compromis- ing her mother. Discovered by her father, she saves her mother by accusing herself. The mother, secure once more, bullies and ill-treats the heroic child, so that the curtain falls on her despairing shriek of “ Misérable!” Here then is truth! Notin a well, as lewd fellows have impotently pretended: but here, here on the stage of the Grand Guignol. It was just what happens every time, when anyone is fool enough to sacrifice themselves. It was m…