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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455452" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Jubilee Sov'reign</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Jubilee Day the Ramsbottoms<br>Invited relations to tea, <br>Including young Albert's grandmother- <br>An awkward old . . party, was she. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She'd seen Queen Victoria's accession<br>And `er wedding to Albert (the Good) <br>But she got quite upset when young Albert <br>Asked `er `ow she'd got on in the Flood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She cast quite a damper on't party, <br>But she warmed up a bit after tea, <br>And gave Albert a real golden sovereign <br>She'd been saving since last Jubilee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It `ad picture of Queen on't one side <br>And a dragon fight on the reverse, <br>And it smelled of camphor and cobwebs <br>Through being so long in `er purse. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Albert `andled the coin, and `e kissed it <br>And `e felt the rough edge with `is tongue; <br>For `e knew by the look of `is father <br>That it wouldn't be `is very long. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I`ll show you a trick wi' that sovereign,"<br>Said Pa, `oo were `overin' near- <br>And `e took and pretended to eat it,<br>Then brought it back out of `is ear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This magic filled Albert with wonder, <br>And before you could say "Uncle Dick", <br>`E'd got the coin back from `is father <br>And performed the first part of the trick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they all saw where the money `ad gone <br>With excitement the relatives burned; <br>And each one suggested some process <br>For getting the money returned. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some were for fishing with tweezers, <br>While some were for shaking it out; <br>"If we only got back a few shillings," <br>They said "`twould be better than nowt." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They tried `olding Albert `ead downward<br>And giving `is shoulders a clump- <br>`Till his uncle, `oo worked for a chemist <br>Said "There's nowt for it but stomach pump." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, they `adn't a stomach pump `andy, <br>But Pa did the best that `e could <br>With a bicycle pump that they borrowed <br>But that weren't nearly so good. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So off they went to the doctor <br>`Oo looked down `is throat with a glass; <br>`E said "This'll mean operation- <br>I fear that `e'll `ave to `ave gas." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"`Ow much is this `ere goin' to cost me?" <br>Said Father, beginning to squirm. <br>"I'm afraid that it comes out expensive- <br>The best gas is eight pence a therm. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's my time, six shillings an hour; <br>You can't do these things in two ticks- <br>By rights I should charge you a guinea, <br>But I'll do it for eighteen and six." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Wot, eighteen and six to get sovereign?" <br>Said Father, "That doesn't sound sense <br>I'll tell you, you'd best keep young Albert <br>And give us the odd eighteen pence!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The doctor concurred this arrangement, <br>But to this day he stands in some doubt <br>As to whether he's in eighteen shillings<br>Or whether he's eighteen pence out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marriott+Edgar">Marriott Edgar</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=455452" data-title="The Jubilee Sov'reign de Marriott Edgar" data-description="On Jubilee Day the Ramsbottoms Invited relations to tea, Including young Albert's grandmother- An awkward old . . party, was she. She'd seen Queen Victoria's accession And `er wedding to Albert (the Good) But she got quite upset when young Al..."></div> </div> </div>
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