p. 173 | THE SONG OF THE GOSSIP by Harper's Young People

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 11.

THE SONG OF THE GOSSIP.

By Harper's Young People

One old maid, And another old maid, And another old maid—that's three— And they were a gossiping, I'm afraid, As they sat sipping their tea.

They talked of this, And they talked of that, In the usual gossiping way, Until every one was as black as your hat, And the only white ones were they.

One old maid, And another old maid— For the third had gone into the street— Who talked in a way of that third old maid Which would never do to repeat.

And now but one Dame sat all alone— For the others were both away. "I've never yet met," she said, with a groan, "Such scandalous takers as they."

"Alas! and alack! We're all of a pack! For no matter how we walk, Or what folks say to our face, our back Is sure to breed gossip and talk." —Harper's Young People.