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S'lect y'r pa-ardners f'r a walce. Then is Bill seen slouching shamefacedly up to Ethel or Maude,
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Maude giggles, squirms, and finally says,
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Oh, all right. They go through the dance amid a fire of such witticisms as,
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or,
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Nar then, Mord, I'll tell y'r mar! Bill, not a very brilliant controversialist, contents himself with,
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Ah! garn! while Maude, with high disdain, answers,
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D'y' think I'd 'ave him? Pooh!
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with bits of kids of twelve or thereabout, as there are often not ladies enough to go round. Now and again the chatter of voices is stilled and we hear,
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Mr. Ransome will oblige the comp'ny with a song. Mr. Ransome forthwith proceeds to oblige, in a voice hoarse from long and fervent swearing at refractory bullocks, and is inclined to crack on the high notes. He gives us
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Eileen Alannah. Later on, Mr. Furney also obliges. He is short and spare, and, to the great astonishment of his audience, renders
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Let me like a soldier fall,
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Supper,