Coffee Casanova Corner

With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley.

("The result of taking second place to girls at school is that the boy feels a sense of inferiority that he is never afterward able entirely to shake off."—Editorial in London Globe against co-education.)

There, little girl, don't read,

You're fond of your books, I know,

But Brother might mope

If he had no hope

Of getting ahead of you.

It's dull for a boy who cannot lead.

There, little girl, don't read.

With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley.

("The result of taking second place to girls at school is that the boy feels a sense of inferiority that he is never afterward able entirely to shake off."—Editorial in London Globe against co-education.)

There, little girl, don't read,

You're fond of your books, I know,

But Brother might mope

If he had no hope

Of getting ahead of you.

It's dull for a boy who cannot lead.

There, little girl, don't read.

yet

Bingley: that’s great! I’m sorry to hear she’s sick, I was worried you didn’t like her since at the ball—

Darcy: oh she’s not sick

Bingley: ...

Darcy: she just needs to be better

Someone: If Oscar Wilde lived for a couple of more years, we would have had genuine video recordings of him, or at least genuine recordings of his voice, but as things have turned out, he died when he did and we now have not a single piece of audio or video that we are for certain depicts the mannerisms or voice of Oscar Wilde.