This one idea in her head:

To be stitched, stitched, stitched,

Yet a little more tight in her skirt;

The while with her voice disdainfully pitched

(Some ears at the sound, I wis, might have itched),

She sang the "Song of the Flirt!"

Punch, September 18, 1880.


THE JANITOR'S SONG.

With features sallow and grim,