Only a Pannier-1875

PANNIER

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 5/3/2018 at 15:05:16

Dubuque Daily Times, Saturday, Oct 30, 1875, Dubuque, IA, Page: 2

Only a Pannier

A modest young reporter of a city paper while talking with a young and beautiful married lady found himself in a predicament for a very modest young men. She bent down to pick up something, which caused her pannier strings to give way, and the machine fell to the floor like a star from the heavens. It contained four yards of choice muslin, three-quarters of a pound of cotton, six ounces of sawdust, and an Indian rubber brick. He retreated, and he muttered something like this:

O, if I had a sweetheart,
And she a pannier wore,
I’ll be hanged if I would hide it,
Or go to the stable shore.