Say, girl, I admire your shape, an’ I want to take you to ride. I’m
goin’ to get a coach closed in, so they won’t know who’s inside. An’,
say, I wish you lived down the line, but you live like a speakitty.
Wouldn’t you like a little time with a lovin’ guy like me? Straight
goods, I like your style; I told a feller so; I admired you for quite a
while, an’ I bet you didn’t know. I said to a guy, “I’m goin’ around an’
I’ll bet I’ll make a hit.” I won’t never breathe a dog gone sound--let
me love you up a bit. How could I squeal, when I have a wife that thinks
me the finest thing that ever drew the breath of life, an angel without
a wing? I’d like to bring you a bottle of jam, some day from the
commissary, livin’ alone without a man.
Say, kid, ain’t you free to marry? Class! What’s that got to do with us?
Say, that puts me on the bum. Education, your foot! Don’t make such a
fuss; see, I brought you some chewin’ gum. You’re just a little too
touchy, see! I don’t understand your way. The wimmin I know are easy an’
free, an’ just a little bit gay. If I was just a man about town, don’t
you believe I’d look it? I like you, girl; don’t wear such a frown! Do
you think I’m a guy that’s crooked? I’m not of your class? Oh, that’s
it, eh? Some chump that pushes a pen, that gets but a hundred a month
for pay, is more in your line of men. Do you know what the Colonel said
to me? an’ I think he’s always right. Education ain’t worth a darn, says
he; ’tis a man that puts up the fight. Well, so long, kid, since you
prefer a guy that pushes a pen, who has his little hundred per, but
ain’t my class of men.