Boudoir Conversation

“What would you do?” Said Nell to Belle,

     As she shuddered from foot to head,

“If you woke at night with an awful fright

     And heard a man under your bed?”

Nell and Belle were bachelor maids,

     Their ages were thirty-three;

And they were plain and quite ungain,

     And timid as they could be.

“What would I do?” Said Belle to Nell,

     “If I heard a man under my bed?

I would die of fright and then strike a light

     And see what he looked like,” she said.

Dec. 3, 1912