Show I A BALLAD BATTAD OP OF WINTER Baltimore News L Now ow our wife assaiLs us with a would fain feel nice and troPIc when the Winter rolls around And she paints us glowing pictures ot of the winters chilly fixtures such as slush h and mixtures on the frosty crackling ground Then In deeD decu humiliation she unfolds the tho thoI I situation and In gushing DU puts our conscience on the raque Would we have our labeled as a alad alady lad lady v hod been tabled by the fright whoso whose mouse enabled her to get et a sealskin lL IL Then she goes on and she shows us how each ch fiend that knoWs us will Instanter us as away behind the style And she gradually wins us as each dole doleful doleful ful tale she spins soles us till by George Goorge she UP and pins nina us to agree to taP our nile nUe For the 1 purchase of a In the way of fashion and we go to blow our cash In where the yawnIng salesmen walt wait But encounter a disaster that makes mortar ot of the ulaster and a rage we cannot master works contusion confusIon In our 1 ate nate IlL For the first store we encounter has an obstacle Who explains behInd the counter hoW his bIs the finest out Its a wondrous little beauty fifty plunks besIdes the duty and our look too with It on be beyond yond ond a doubt But when home borne our way Wa weve wended lo 10 our dream ot of by is ended for forwith forwith with tears shrieks are blended as a she screams It Its the rankest imitation It itt m my scope ot Of observation This Is lust just the cit It Weve Vee been skinned and not the seal |