NEW (NORWEGIAN) NONSENSE VERSE.
(After seeing Ibsen's Dramas.)
There was a young female in Norway,
Who fancied herself in a poor way,
Because she felt that
Her sweet sex was squeezed flat,
As though caught in cold Destiny's doorway.
This rebellious young woman of Norway
Cried, "Man, in his coarse, brutal boor-way,
Would wipe his big feet
On my sex soft and sweet;
But I'll be no mere mat in Man's doorway!"
And so this young woman of Norway
Got Ibsen to write, in cock-sure way,
Concerning her woes,
And tip-tilted her nose,
Crying, "Now womankind will have more way!"
But alas! this young woman of Norway
Still feels that her soul's in a poor way,
Because, in a play,
She won't charm (so they say)
Or draw crowds through the theatre's doorway.
Latest à Propos of the Covent Garden Fancy Dress Balls.—"Of course," observed Mrs. R., "as ladies do not want to be recognised, they simply go in dummy noses."
Legal Query.—When a leading Barrister gets someone to "devil" for him, may the latter's occupation be correctly described as "devilry"?
