Classic Poem

LITTLE K ITTY L ORIMER ,
Fair, and young, and witty,
What has brought your ladyship
Rambling to the City?

All the stags in Capel Court
Saw her lightly trip it;
All the lads of Stock Exchange
Twigg'd her muff and tippet.

With a sweet perplexity,
And a mystery pretty,
Threading through Threadneedle Street
Trots the little Kitty.

What was my astonishment —
What was my compunction,
When she reached the Offices
Of the Didland Junction!

Up the Didland stairs she went,
To the Didland door, Sir;
Porters, lost in wonderment,
Let her pass before, Sir.

" Madam, " says the old chief Clerk,
" Sure we can't admit ye "
" Where's the Didland Junction deed? "
Dauntlessly says Kitty.

" If you doubt my honesty,
Look at my receipt, Sir. "
Up then jumps the old chief Clerk,
Smiling as he meets her.

Kitty at the table sits
(Whither the old Clerk leads her),
" I deliver this , " she says,
" As my act and deed, Sir. "

When I heard these funny words
Come from lips so pretty,
This, I thought, should surely be
Subject for a ditty.

What! are ladies stagging it?
Sure, the more's the pity;
But I've lost my heart to her, —
Naughty little Kitty.