For I’m to be Queen of the May, mother, I’m to be Queen of the May!”
“Swore Off.”
This piece won the class medal at the Ninth Annual Commencement of the Mt. Vernon Institute of Elocution and Languages, 1892.
Sit on chair at right side of a common table.
Boys, take another![1409] To-night we’ll be gay,
For to-morrow, you know, is the New Year’s Day,
And I promised my Bessie to-night should be
The very last night I stayed on this spree.
I’ve been a good fellow—spent lots of “tin”
In sampling and drinking both whiskey and gin;