Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Not An Up-To-Date Young Man



He met his sweetheart on the road,
     He’d never seen her wheeling;
And as he saw the garb she wore,
     His heart did burst with feeling.
He was a proper, nice young man,
     Their wedding day was settled;
But when he spoke, the darling knew
     Her cycling days were kettled.
“I cans’t marry you,” he said,
     Despite all ‘dates’ and ‘rumors’;
I cannot, will not, call you mine,
     Until you shed-those-bloomers.”


June 2, 1895
Pub. in B. Courier,

June 23, 1895 

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