THE SUSTDAY OKEGONIAN. PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 8, 1903.
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v SHE IS WELCOMED HOME.
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Bur she was not prepared at all to have so many meet her
And bring her flowers and fruit and fudge and lovingly to greet her.
First came reporters in a group and shook her by the hand
" And hoped she ne'er again would leave "her only native land;"
But when they asked her if she'd wished for Bryan or for Taft
She would not say a single word, bur merrily she laughed.
- Then half a hundred women sought her out ar Quarantine
And said, "Our husbands oft have said that they have never seen
A girl that's half as sweet as you, excepting only us,
And so we've come to see- if you are worthy all their fuss."
Dear rltiffv smiled and also blushed 1 he women said, it s true Id
And if they hadn't married-us we wish the d married you.'
They handed her a huge bouquet. Then she was called below
And she (if truthfulness must.rule) was rather glad to go
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When they had docked the steamer and she set her foot on shore
jgShe found a mob of little lads that numbered near a score.
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kiss you
An say that all the summer long we soitinly did miss you.'
The tear drops came to FlurTy's eyes, for every word waj
meant, . .
And over every boyish lip quite sisterly she bent.
They'd washed their faces just for her and they were very
proud,
And when she'd kissed them "each and all" off went the
happy crowd.
That evening to her hostelry there came u crowd of men,
"I'll go down stairs ,and see them, aunt, and then come up
again.
She went and saw the men were none that she had e'er ex
pected,
For there were twenty-seven men alf suitors she'd rejected.
"Let bygones dear Miss -Fluffy still be bygones
don't you know"
(She almost laughed to see them sranding up there in a row),
"And though you wouldn't marry us" ('twas like a col
lege yell) . "
u We're glad to welcome you to town and hope
you're very well."
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