“Lor’, but women’s rum cattle to deal with, the first man found that to his cost,
And I reckon it’s just through a woman the last man on earth’ll be lost.”

— George Robert Sims

Dagonet Ballads. Moll Jarvis o’ Morley.

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English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist 1847–1922

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