CHILVERN'S BALLAD—THE MORAL.
Chilvern has got a Ballad which Medford sets to music. It is illustrated by tableaux vivants, performed by Miss Adelaide Cherton, Cazell, and Milburd.
CORPORAL TIM AND FAIR MOLLY.
“Farewell,” said Molly, to him;
192 “You're going,” says she,
“I'm going,” says he,
“To fight in Tartary Crim.”
(Sadly.) “To fight in Tartary Crim!”
“I see,” sobs Corporal Tim,
“You're eyes with weeping are dim.”
“No, no,” says she,
“Don't stop for me,
But go to Tartary Crim.”
(More sadly.) “Oh! go to Tartary Crim!”
“One word,” says Corporal Tim;
“I have a young friend called Jim,
He'll act to you,
Like a brother would do,
While I'm in Tartary Crim.”
(Most sadly.) “While you're in Tartary Crim.”
“The ship is off!” cried Tim.
He raised his hat by the brim;
193 He waved it about,
While she sobbed out,
“He's off to Tartary Crim.”
(Frantically.) “He's off to Tartary Crim.”
Was strong and not too slim;
He was a tar,
On a man-of-war,
194Arrived from Tartary Crim.
(Cheerfully.) Arrived from Tartary Crim.
Now this young man called Jim,
He took a holiday whim;
“Oh, let's be jolly,
While he's in Tartary Crim.”
(Jovially.) “While he's in Tartary Crim.”
195 One day, said Jovial Jim,
“I've got some news of Tim;
His ship, three-decked,
Was smashed and wrecked,
On leaving Tartary Crim.”
(Dubiously.) “On leaving Tartary Crim.”
“He's drowned! poor Corporal Tim!”
Then Molly sang a hymn.
“Now, Jim,” says she,
“You'll marry me,
And bother Tartary Crim.”
(Decidedly.) “And bother Tartary Crim.”
One night at home with Jim,
Appeared a figure grim.
Cries she, “'Tis T——!”
“It is,” says he;
“I've come from Tartary Crim.”
(Spectrally.) “I've come from Tartary Crim.”
“You didn't think,” says Tim,
“That corporals could swim
196But ghosts know how
To swim—I'm now—
(Spectrally.) My ghost!—from Tartary Crim.”
And then they saw that Tim
Had fins on every limb;
His feet went squish—
Cries Jim, “I wish
I was in Tartary Crim.”
(Excitedly.) “Away to Tartary Crim!”
He took a jump, did Jim,
Right on to a vessel's rim;
She made a tack,
And he never came back,
To her or Tartary Crim.
(With certainty.) To her or Tartary Crim.
The ghost of Corporal Tim
Took Molly away with him,
And plunged in the sea,
And there they be,
Two ghosts in Tartary Crim.
197 Moral (sung by the ghost of Molly).
“Oh, when you hear that TimIs drowned, don't marry Jim,
Or else, like me,
You'll have to be
A ghost in Tartary Crim.”
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