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Show TIP WILLIE. (An Echo Prom Gilbert.) A waiter he stood at my goodly right hand, Singing "Willie! tip Willie! tip Willie!" And I said, "Honest Richard, now why do you stand Singing 'Willie! tip Willie! tip Willie'? is it weakness of intellect, waiter," I cried, "Or a clockwork device in your little inside?" With a shake of his barber-shop curls he replied: "Tip Willie! tip Willie! tip Willie!" My plate he removed, and he held out his hand, Sighing, "Willie! tip Willie! tip Willie!" Till I said, "Simple waiter, I can't understand All this 'Willie! tip Willie! tip Willie!' Your accents denote indigestive remorse Do you wish mo to pay for my meal by the course?" But the waiter replied in a monotone hoarse: "Tip Willie! tip Willie! tip Willie!" When I paid for my dinner he acted so strange, With his "Willie! tip Willie! tip Willie!" As I quietly pocketed all of the change To his "Willie! tip Willie! tip Willie!" Then a sola, and a sigh, and a gurgle he gave, And I said to the steward: "How your waiters behave! be-have! "You're silly! tip Willie! tip Willie!" Wallace Irwin in New York Globe. |
