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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392953" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It Happens in the B.R. Families</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas on the shores that round our coast <br>From Deal to Newport lie <br>That I roused from sleep in a huddled heap <br>An elderly wealthy guy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His hair was graying, his hair was long, <br>And graying and long was he; <br>And I heard this grouch on the shore avouch, <br>In a singular jazzless key:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Oh, I am a cook and a waitress trim <br>And a maid of the second floor, <br>And a strong chauffeur and a housekeeper, <br>And the man who tends the door!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he shook his fists and he tore his hair, <br>And he started to frisk and play, <br>Till I couldn't help thinking the man had been drinking, <br>So I said (in the Gilbert way):</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Oh, elderly man, I don't know much <br>Of the ways of societee, <br>But I'll eat my friend if I comprehend <br>However you can be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"At once a cook and a waitress trim <br>And the maid of the second floor, <br>And a strong chauffeur and a housekeeper, <br>And the man who tends the door."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he smooths his hair with a nervous air, <br>And a gulp in his throat he swallows, <br>And that elderly guy he then lets fly <br>Substantially as follows:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"We had a house down Newport way, <br>And we led a simple life; <br>There was only I," said the elderly guy, <br>And my daughter and my wife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And of course the cook and a waitress trim <br>And the maid of the second floor, <br>And a strong chauffeur and a housekeeper, <br>And the man who tends the door."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"One day the cook she up and left, <br>She up and left us flat. <br>She was getting a hundred and ten a mon- <br>Th, but she couldn't work for that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And the waitress trim was her bosom friend, <br>And she wouldn't stay no more; <br>And our strong chauffeur eloped with her <br>Who was the maid of the second floor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And we couldn't get no other help, <br>So I had to cook and wait. <br>It was quite absurd," wept the elderly bird. <br>"I deserve a better fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And I drove the car and I made the beds <br>Till the housekeeper up and quit; <br>And the man at the door found that a bore, <br>Which is why I am, to wit:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"At once a cook and a waitress trim <br>And the maid of the second floor, <br>And a strong chauffeur and a housekeeper, <br>And the man who tends the door."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Franklin+P.+Adams">Franklin P. Adams</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392953" data-title="It Happens in the B.R. Families de Franklin P. Adams" data-description="'Twas on the shores that round our coast From Deal to Newport lie That I roused from sleep in a huddled heap An elderly wealthy guy. His hair was graying, his hair was long, And graying and long was he; And I heard this grouch on the shore a..."></div> </div> </div>
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