“The final extinction of man,” she said,
“Then you won’t marry, my pretty maid?”
“Superior girls never marry,” she said.
Modern Society. September 12, 1885.
“Whizz,” the Christmas number of The Bicycling Times, 1880, has a long parody, entitled “A Bicyclist’s Song,” after My Rattling Mare and I; also a parody on “My Pretty Maid,” entitled The Wheelman and the Maid, which concludes thus:—
“Shall I have any croppers?” asked my pretty maid,
“Shall I have any croppers?” asked my pretty maid,
“You’ll often go over, sweet girl, I said, sweet girl I said,” &c.
“Then I cannot ride it,” said my pretty maid,
“Then I cannot ride it,” said my pretty maid,