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122 Five dashing girls, the youngest Twenty-one: But, if nobody proposes, what is there to be done?

Five showy girls–but Thirty is an age When girls may be engaging, but they somehow don’t engage.

Five dressy girls, of Thirty-one or more: So gracious to the shy young men they snubbed so much before!

Five passé girls–Their age? Well, never mind! We jog along together, like the rest of human kind: But the quondam “careless bachelor” begins to think he knows The answer to that ancient problem “how the money goes”!