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Miss Mantis Says Her Prayers

Miss Mantis said her evening prayers
Upon a sprig of thyme.
A gentleman in green came by.
‘My dear, you’re just in time.’

He put his arms about her waist
And swore, as lovers do,
‘There’s nothing in the world, my dear,
I would not give to you.’

She took him at his word, my love,
And ate him then and there.
How good of God to send her such
An answer to her prayer!

Miss Dace proposed a lecture on prostitution and the injustice in the differing ways in which women and men were treated. It was not, on reflection, a good idea to give such a lecture to an audience including so many military men.