To Mam and Dad while drinking tea
Old Mam looks cross but Miss looks kind
And takes the note he slips behind.

[Illustration]

T'elope's the word and down she goes
With fur on neck and veil on nose
While Poll her maid with light and rope-a
At once assists and saves a faux pas.

[Illustration]

Now side by side in Dickey plac'd
To Gretna Green they speed with haste
While Poll and Stag sit Vis a Vis
And quiz the Pupil of the _B. D. C._*

* Barouche Driving Club.

[Illustration]

T'wixt cup and lip Alas! we see
Both wine and lovers spilt may be.
Against the _Post_, the horses run
The Reins are lost the Coachman's flung
Pig flies aloft, Miss tumbles down
Broke is her _neck_, and crack'd his _crown_!

Moral.

Behold the crisis of our awful story
And catch this Moral from the Scene before ye
If e'er at Gretna Green a lover glances
Crane-necks remember, and beware mischances.

[Illustration]

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