Love Sonnets of an Office Boy (Sonnet 24)

XXIV

THAT homely clerk took her out for a ride

Last Sunday in a buggy, and they rode

Around all through the parks; I wisht I'd knowed

About it, and the horse would kind of shied,

And then got scared and run and kicked, and I'd

Of been a piece ahead and saw him jump

And leave her hangin' on alone, the chump,

And she'd of been so 'fraid she'd nearly died.

Then I'd of give a spring and caught the bit,

And landed on the horse's back, where all

The people there could see me doin' it,

And when I got her saved the crowd woiuld call

Three cheers for me, and then she'd come and fall

Against my buzzum, and he'd have a fit.