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…ome shady favourite backwater with my favourite girl friend in front. What a thing friendship is, world without end ! and my favourite old black briar between my lips, and her sweet face fixed on my old favour- ite thumb-worn copy of Sappho, and pore over the deevie pages, hour after hour, bound by the Womans Guild. No ! Sappho has nothing like this in all her scroll of gorgeous rhyme : Cox has, and I am proud to have been to her what I have. Rosie Brooks (Diaper)
1909 · PDF PAGE 2
EDITORIAL NOTE Pleesm ! said my (Diapers, not Mrs Coxs] sloppy slavey one brilliant November morning of last year, as the orangegold clouds of deliciously perfumed mist stole, in spite of the Eighth com- mandment, down my chimney in Fleet Street ; [of course Diaper does not live in a chimney : she has a deevie flat there and the flat has a chimney, two chimneys, in fact, O.C.) myav thister litafir ? Woman ! I replied sternly, whence came it ? My practised eye had already detected the inde- scribable cachet of a treasure trove bene trovato, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 3
… postage stamp These she had placed on my mantelpiece for pipe-spills, and forgotten about them. It is my pride and privilege through my old and esteemed consur, as I suppose I may say for the lady of confrère, to give the providentially rescued masterpiece ; alas ! too incomplete ! to the World of Society, though even the humblest may enjoy (A navvy, when they were repairing the street, whom I asked up to taste my delicious T. I think the ab- breviation is so clever, dont you ? and to whom I had read it, said : B...y good, miss, b...y …