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I COMIC SONGSTER.
35
NUMBER ONE.
It 9 vpry hard, and so it is,
To live in such a row,
And witness this, that every Miss
But me has got a beau.
For love goes calling up and down.
But here he seems to shun :
I'm sure he has been ask’d enough
To call at number one!
Now, all young maids, take my advice.
And listen to ray song.
And if a sweetheart you should want.
Don’t live at number one.
I’m sick of all the double knocks
That come to number four !
At number three I often see
A lover at the door ;—
And one in blue at number two,
Calls daily like a dun ;
It’s very bard they come so near,
And not to number one!
Mi’s Bell, I hear, has got a dear
Exactly to her mind,
By sitting at the window pane
Without a bit of blind.
But I go on the balcony.
Which she has never done ;
Yet arts that thrive at number five
Don’t take at number one!