THE TITULYÁRNYI SOVÉTNIK.[14]

He——was a Ninth-class Councillor,

And she——a General’s daughter.

He timidly declared his love;

She spurned him when he sought her.

Then went that Ninth-class Councillor,

And drowned his grief in drinking;

And through the vinous fumes all night

That General’s girl came blinking—blinking.

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