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Balpb Ro«y9s rambles in 8earc!i off Killy
Clover, liis »vi^eeiiieart.
A favorite cornic reciratiop, as delivered by Mr. SLOMAN, at
the iN'ew-Vork Tiit:iiirc4.
Well here I be, I's just c:,me to town,
Th' York broad wheel'd waggon set me down
At Bull at Mouth, a place wi'Jl know'd
By folks in Lunnun, 1 am told ;
And a bonny place it be, but here I han't time to stay
For the loss of Kitty Clover plagues me night and day.
0,shewurabonny lass, but mayhapsomcoflhee can lell
Where sweet Kitty Clover now doth dwell.
She's sent for me, she did indeed—
I ha' gotten the letter, whicli to thc.-e PU read ;-
" Dear Ralph, this comes to say.
That you mun to Lunnun come without delay
As to be your wife I at last consent.
If to be my husband you still be bent;
I ha' spoken to parson, and he'll make us twa yan,
Till then, I remain.
Your, Kitty Clover, Lunnun."
This be the letter that Kitty scut.
To many her wur always my intent:
But where Kitty Uves, T can't find out,
Tho' from street to street Pve wander'd aU nbout.
So I thought at corner o' street I'd stay
TUl Kitty Clover pass'il that way ;
But she never com'd, so I gauged awav;
I knock'd at doors next, and axed within.
If one Kitty Clover cwuLi be seen ]
•* Morning, Sir; is one Kitty Clover live here'^"
" No."—" Nor here V - No."—- Nor here ^" '*No *"
—Well,
'Tis strange every body knows, yet none can Udi:
At last I gi'd her up; but as I com'd along,
Hearing, as I thought, a song,
I stenned un. tliinkinir KUf^r >vi;.vt.* K-^ V-. ^-^««.
*i rong