(By an Old Bachelor.)
If lovely woman seeks to enter
The crowded ’bus in which you ride,
Have you the heart to discontent her.
Or would you rather go outside?
I’m brute enough, I dare to state,
Although it may the lady vex,
To keep my seat, and let her wait—
I’ve “bussed” too many of the sex.
Gossip, May 16, 1885.