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Book: Rose of Spadgers

Published in 1924

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  • The Faltering Knight
    It knocks me can in, this ere game uv life,
    A bloke gets born, grows up, looks round fer fun,
    138 lines
  • A Holy War
    "Young friend!" . . . I tries to duck, but miss the bus.
    'E sees me first, an' 'as me by the 'and.
    135 lines
  • The Crusaders
    "Peter the 'Ermit was a 'oly bloke,"
    The parson sez, "wot chivvied coves to war."
    126 lines
  • The Knight's Return
    The conq'rin' 'ero! Me? Yes, I don't think.
    This mornin' when I catch the train fer 'ome,
    119 lines
  • A Woman's Way
    Women is strange. You take my tip; I'm wise.
    I know enough to know I'll never know
    102 lines
  • 'Ave a 'eart!
    "'Ere! 'Ave a 'eart!" 'e sez. "Why, love a duck!
    A 'uman bein' ain't a choppin' block!
    168 lines
  • Listeners Luck
    "My sort," she sez, "don't meet no fairy prince."
    I can't 'elp 'earin' part uv wot was said
    79 lines
  • The Also-Ran
    I know I'm dull.  I know I got a brain
      That's only fit fer fertilizin' 'air.
    124 lines
  • Termarter Sorce
    It was n't kid stakes.  I 'ad no crook lurk
      To act deceivin', or to treat 'er mean.
    194 lines
  • Nocturne
    I'm standin' at the corner uv the Lane --
      The Land called Spadgers -- waiting fer 'is jills.
    194 lines
  • The Dance
    "Heirlums," 'e sez.  "I've 'ad the trousiz pressed.
      Me father married in 'em, that 'e did.
    117 lines
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