I'll look them up. Stay! No, I won't.

Instead, let us converse together

About Miss Mary Merryweather.

A guileless child of nature, she

Who lived out Upper Norwood way,

A Begum she desired to be,

And dreamt about this night and day,

But,—though she made a solemn vow to

Be a Begum,—knew not how to.

"What is a Begum?" friends would ask,