Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — A Bachelor’s Valentine. [ARTICLE]

A Bachelor’s Valentine.

If I were younger, Mary Jane Would not so guyly flout me. Of if she did I’d make It plain She could not do without me. She will not be my vuleutlne. Forsooth, the maids are plenty— I’ll venture that she would be mine If I were oue-aud-twenty. Wtfy, forty years ago there were A score I could have married. And every one outfavored her; But then, of course, I tarried Till Ann and Lou and Susie, too, And all the rest I mind me. Dropped me because, they said, they knew They knew not where to And me. But as It Is the Widow Black, Thank heaven, has some reason, And knows that meu, like fruit, don't lack In worth If out of season. To her’l'll send a billet doux And state my fortune clearly— Some thousands. I'll admit to yotr— And she will lore me dearly!