To get a little glimpse of Alfred Gray.
It had all been arranged and ’twas timed to the hour
For Amanda to dance with the old bachelor,
The chap’ron, ’twas said, had a song of her own;
She expected, of course, to have sung it alone,
And though she led off in a rather high key,
The dancers all joined her with boisterous glee,
For they slyly had conned it the evening before;
And they made it the jolliest dance on the floor,