You’ll each one deserve a poor curate to be
If you don’t join your lots with the maids of Dundee.”
The Hornet, May 8, 1872.
The Maidens of Bonnie Dundee.
(“The Dundee servant maids have quarrelled with the reporters, whom they charge with having made their meetings ridiculous. They refused to have their last meeting reported.”)
And did they its meeting turn into a joke,
And fun journalistic presume for to poke?
Could anyone aught that’s ridiculous see
In the “platform” assumed by the maids of Dundee?