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Show ' ..' DISILLUSION . 'QHE was really very pretty witlrher "f eyes of sapphire blue "'Arid with hair the shade that Titian ' loves to paint tBut I couldn't stand her grammar, V J with its constant "wasn't you?" And her oft-repeated phrase that ' - "no one ain't;" -Oh, her lips were like the cherries, and her mouth a Cupid's bow, While her Grecian nose was quite ft ! - without a flaw jr 'But it pained me when she "knowed ji, him" though I knew she didn't - . A know, 4 " And it hurt me when she said ''she i . ' hadn't saw!" JjWhen she bathed, the Gods who made ' her, proud looked down upon l " the dame, I You could almost swear you heard fair Venus buzz But th6 Gods above had never heard ' her say "he Tiadn't came," Nor that chiseled mouth ejaculate, ' "they was;" fe If the Gods had only made her deaf and dumb she'd been a Queen, f AndJ I'd thanked them for the gift "",, ' that they had sent p' jVBut she drove me almost frantic F w when sho'd lisp: "That's what 't J I seen" 'And I'left her when she said "she j ft" ' 4ougtiter went!" I ""w ? ' Pittsburg Bulletin: |