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A Parody on Princess Ida

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Dalziel D (Davison)

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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beware of their officials. Do not be deceived into thinking that because a man is godlike in appearance, he is anything but a man after all. With all their grace, their outward charms and pleasing manners, these creatures would win your hearts, and wear them too, with all the assurance with which one of us would knock the top off an egg for breakfast. This much being said, I beg you to follow me to partake in the usual exercises of the day.

(Exit Princess, followed by the ladies of the seminary. The sound of an engine whistle is heard. Then enter Hilarion, Cyril and Florian at back, creeping cautiously.)

TRIO.

Gently, gently,

Evidently

We are safe so far.

The Alton Train,

With sweet refrain,

Brought us, here we are!

Flying lightly,

Whizzing sprightly,

O’er the Alton Track.

We expect to

All invite you

When we journey back.

HILARION—Hush, scoffer! Despite the advantages of our remarkably excellent line, it is proper for you to remember that you can’t work off any tickets here in this college of learning. These ladies are going to do wonderful things, I am told. List to their intentions:

They intend to live alone

From us men; from us men.

Like the doggy with his bone,

Do you ken; do you ken?

Then they’re greedy with their graces,

Selfish girls; selfish girls.

And they hide their pretty faces

And their curls, and their curls.

They’ve a very queer intention

It is sung, it is sung:

To resist polite attention

From the young, from the young.

They’ve another funny notion,

They can do without devotion

From an Alton man—what notion—

If they can, if they can.

These are the Phenomena,

That every pretty Domina

Hopes that we shall see

At the Universitee.

CYRIL—

As for Railroads they are ready

To admit; to admit

That their employes are steady

And they sit, and they sit

A dreaming of the Alton men

At their best, at their best;

And waiting for the hour when

They pass West, they pass West.

But, each newly made aspirant

To the clan, to the clan,