Paternal affection comes out with a gush:
But when, as in the war times, the cash is non est,
The Father is lost in the planter distressed.
V.
"My daughter, my Linda," he tenderly said,
"Your mother for several years has been dead;
But not until now could I muster the strength
To tell you what all must have found out at length."
Chorus.—Casually demonstrating how it must really have been found out at length:
The Dixian feminines, true to their sex,