Life — August 6, 1903 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“THs 18 A Comino nome, “TLL ADMIT, MY Love, 1 UAVE MADE A DAY or it.” The Musician's Proposal. My summer idol is a belle Whose pastime is to Her beaux, of whom s! Assortinent on her f Hence is my difidence a To wooing, yet I burn With hope, and pray that from afar My love she may re~. I dream that I may yet em} Her slender waist, and > Her hand, while setting forth my case In fervent words and bold. Yet, though my passion knows no 4 Ihave not dared = =4 My thoughts within her hearing, lest Discouragement I meet. I might avow them in a _J, But I'm too $ for that,— She might not answer, if I wrote, And that would knock me 8. But in the good old summer-=3= It's 2 to propose In verse, and so I trust this rhyme The incident will =] Frank Roe Batchedder, D. Cupid. ALLEGRO—GIOCOSO. Op. 1002. comicbooks.com