"ALL A-BLOWING!"
Air—The celebrated Duet in "The Mikado."
Much-sold Pater and Mater sing:—
Pater. The flowers that bloom in the Spring,
Tra la,
To purchase henceforth I decline.
The hawkers those blossoms who bring—
Ah! bah!—
Will "swop 'em for most anything,"
Ha! ha!
But as soon as you've bought 'em they pine.
Both. And that's what they mean when they say, or they sing,
"He's as green as a man who buys flowers in the Spring,"
Tra la la la la la, &c.
Mater. The flowers that bloom in the Spring,
Tra la!
Are a sell, my dear hub, in our case.
I bought this with a "suit"—there's the sting,
Pa-pa!
Which he said was "a worn-hout hold thing,"
(O-la!)
Just fancy his having the face!
Now 'tis shrunken, and shrivelled, and that's why I sing,
Oh, bother the flowers that bloom in the Spring!
Tra la la la la la, &c.
Both (to Servant). So tell the next rascal who ventures to ring,
We'll buy no more flowers that bloom in the Spring!
[Dance, and exeunt, determined never again to be diddled by the howling "A-a-blowing and a-growing!" impostors, who, at this season, hawk heat-forced or illrooted pot-plants about the streets of the suburbs.