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`````returned to her craft.
````He wrote in his merry vein:
````She read him aloud, and the
````Studio laughed!
````Ermyntrude bore the strain.
````He was full of gay bloodshed and
````Old Man Fritz:
````His flippancy sent her friends
`````into fits.
````Ermyntrude frowned with
`````pain.
|HIS tales of the Sergeant who
`````swore so hard
````Left Ermyntrude cold and
`````prim;
````The tactless truth of the picture
`````jarred,
````And some of his jokes were
`````grim.
````Yet, let him but skate upon
`````tender ice,
````And he had to write to her twice
`````or thrice
````Before she would answer him.
|YET once she sent him a
`````fairy's box,
````And her pocket felt the brunt
````Of tinned contraptions and
`````books and socks--
````Which he hailed as "a sporting
`````stunt!"
````She slaved at his muffler none
`````the less,
````And still took pleasure in mur-
`````muring, "Yes!
````For a friend of mine at the
````Front.")
|ONE fine morning his name
`````appears--
````Looking so pretty in print!
````"Wounded!" she warbles in
`````tragedy tears--
````And pictures the reddening
`````lint,
````The drawn damp face and the
`````draggled hair . . .
````But she found him blooming in
````Grosvenor Square,
````With a punctured shin in a
`````splint.
|IT wasn't a haunt of Ermyn-
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