乙女

解説

付記

恋に悩む乙女が、座って歌った。 それは風変わりで甘美な歌―― 「おお、私は求む―― フットボールで敵をなぎ倒す 強き若者を！ 未来のチームのキャプテン、 神授の権利により グラウンドに輝く王者を！ そして、私をローストせずに 抱きしめてくれる人を！」 ―― オポリン・ジョーンズ

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Original

A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime. The genus has a wide geographical distribution, being found wherever sought and deplored wherever found. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her piano and her views) insupportable to the ear, though in respect to comeliness distinctly inferior to the rainbow, and, with regard to the part of her that is audible, bleaten out of the field by the canary—which, also, is more portable.

Additional notes

A lovelorn maiden she sat and sang— This quaint, sweet song sang she; It's O for a youth with a football bang And a muscle fair to see! The Captain he Of a team to be! On the gridiron he shall shine, A monarch by right divine, And never to roast on it—me! Opoline Jones