But the dance went on through all, being highly appropriate, at all events to verse one, which ran:—
“Yuss! A fling and a slide with a pal, inside,
It isn't 'alf bad—but mind you!
The spot for a 'op is in front o' the shop
With a fried-fish-breeze be'ind you...
Well! Every lass was bold as brass,
But divvle a one a Venus;
An' Rorty 'Arry as I'm to marry
The only man between us!”
Here Missy and the music stopped together, Mr. Appleton holding his fingers in readiness over the next notes, while Missy interrupted her dance, too, to step forward and open fire upon her audience in the following prose:—