Volume 2 — Strolling With Jane Gaites
Reading edition
To Love
Love, once you came to me, I laughed the long day through; For I was young, and happily I reveled in this love so new. Oh, it was good to live and love! I vowed that I’d be true, And of the sob behind the smile I never dreamed—I never knew. For every joy I’ve shed a tear; Love left me long ago. I’ve nothing now but memories— How could you hurt me so?
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Outside the Movies
By JANE GAITES
After wrecking a dozen homes or more and crushing at least six or nine perfectly good hearts, the movie “vamp” quickly slipped into her street clothes and hurried away from the noisy studio to buy her baby a doll.
After completing the “Adventures of Nan,” the little “convent” girl rushed into her dressing room and was not surprised to find a note from her husband saying that business had called him out of town.
She smiled somewhat significantly and then, carefully powdering her saucy little nose and arching those two tiny perfect lips, she hurried away from the noisy studio to keep an appointment with the “vamp’s” husband.
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Silly Sonnets
By JANE GAITES
“Where are you going, my pretty maid?” “I am going a-shimmying, sir,” she said. “And may I go with you my pretty maid?” “If it so please you, sir,” she said. “May I kiss you, my pretty maid?” “What is your income, sir?” she said. “Sunday morning, my pretty maid.” “Kid somebody else, sir,” she said.
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Dickory, dickory dock, A mouse ran up the clock; But this clock, I find, Was a different kind, And her cries could be heard up the block.
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Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, Sharing her good curds and whey; They were hugging and kissing, When her Ma found her missing And frightened fond lover away.
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The Lure
By JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY
“What bait do you use,” said a Saint to the Devil, “When you fish where the souls of men abound?” “Well, for special tastes,” said the King of Evil, “Gold and Fame are the best I’ve found.” “But for common use?” asked the Saint. “Ah, then,” Said the Demon, “I angle for Man, not men; And a thing I hate is to change my bait, So I fish with a woman the whole year ’round.”