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Freemasons' Wives.
FREEMASONS' WIVES .
BY MRS . a . M . TWEDDELL , Authoress of " Rhymes ami Sketches to Illustrate the Cleveland Dialect , " § c . MY husband is a Mason true , And a Mason ' s Wife am I ; But to learn Masonic Secrets
It is no use to try : He might tell me—just only me—For women never tell A secret , but to a friend That they can trust full weU . My friend , Jemima , call'd to-day ,
To have a little talk ; She said that Masons' meetings Oft had their end in smoke : Her husband ' s clothes were full of it , — She really could not bear To have them in her room last night , So threAV them on the stair .
BroAvn said tobacco did no harm , And it Avas but a plea To get his clothes outside the room , What he had spent to see . She told him , warmly , that he knew She would not he so mean ; And he as coolly made reply , " Jemima thinks I'm green . "
" No Brown , said she , " you are not green , Or I should very soon Get at the Secrets that yon keep , So closely , Mister BroAvn ! The parson said , when Ave were wed , We two Avere one for life ; But Masonry has made us
two—You ' ve Secrets from your Wife !" Now Avas her time to speak , she thought , But BroAvn began to snore ; He always will go off to sleep , Then she can say no more . It ever is his way , she says , When Masonry's her theme ; And all she meant to say that night , Just ended in a dream .
We both agreed it was no use To tease ova husbands more ; For they as Masons were as good As they had been before ; And she and I , from what they say , Have ahvays understood , That there is nought in Masonry
But Avhat is pure and good . Rose Cottage , Stokesley . 2 G
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Freemasons' Wives.
FREEMASONS' WIVES .
BY MRS . a . M . TWEDDELL , Authoress of " Rhymes ami Sketches to Illustrate the Cleveland Dialect , " § c . MY husband is a Mason true , And a Mason ' s Wife am I ; But to learn Masonic Secrets
It is no use to try : He might tell me—just only me—For women never tell A secret , but to a friend That they can trust full weU . My friend , Jemima , call'd to-day ,
To have a little talk ; She said that Masons' meetings Oft had their end in smoke : Her husband ' s clothes were full of it , — She really could not bear To have them in her room last night , So threAV them on the stair .
BroAvn said tobacco did no harm , And it Avas but a plea To get his clothes outside the room , What he had spent to see . She told him , warmly , that he knew She would not he so mean ; And he as coolly made reply , " Jemima thinks I'm green . "
" No Brown , said she , " you are not green , Or I should very soon Get at the Secrets that yon keep , So closely , Mister BroAvn ! The parson said , when Ave were wed , We two Avere one for life ; But Masonry has made us
two—You ' ve Secrets from your Wife !" Now Avas her time to speak , she thought , But BroAvn began to snore ; He always will go off to sleep , Then she can say no more . It ever is his way , she says , When Masonry's her theme ; And all she meant to say that night , Just ended in a dream .
We both agreed it was no use To tease ova husbands more ; For they as Masons were as good As they had been before ; And she and I , from what they say , Have ahvays understood , That there is nought in Masonry
But Avhat is pure and good . Rose Cottage , Stokesley . 2 G