It is the lawyer’s daugh…
And she is grown so dear, so d…
She costs me, in one evening,
The income of a year!
“You ca’n’t have children’s love,” she cr…
“Unless you choose to fee ’em!”
“And what’s your fee, Child?” I replied.
She simply said “…
We saw The Cup. I hoped she’d say,
“I’m grateful to you—very.”
She murmured, as she turned aw…
“That lovely …
“Compared with her, the rest,” she cri…
“Are just like two or three um-
-berellas standing side by side!
Oh, gem of th…
We saw Two Brothers: I confess
To me they seemed one man.
“Now which is which, Child? Can you …
She cried, “A-course I can!”
Bad puns like this I always dread,
And am resolved to flee ’em:
And so I left her there, & fl…
She lives at …
In the same letter there are also the following short verses:
How an Elderly Person took a Young Person to the Play, but could not get her away again
Two went one day
To visit the play.
One came away:
The other would stay.