Yet fair golden locks still encircle your head,

Now, how do you do that, I pray?”

“The locks of my youth,” Lady William replied,

“Were a carroty ginger they said;

But by wise application of Mexican Balm,

I attained to this delicate shade.”

“You are old, Lady William,” the débutante cried,

“And all the folks call you a guy:

Yet the bloom on your cheek far outrivals my own,

Now tell me the dodge or I die.”