The Goose Girls of the San Joaquin: A Dan D Book for Girls (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Goose Girls of the San Joaquin: A Dan D Book for Girls

The Goose Girls of the San Joaquin

Goose girls are, 'twixt you and me,
What they shut their eyes and think they be.

The Full Moon

Goose girls all please give attention
To a school whose name I need not mention.
It isn't the U. of C. or Stanford -
It's a school just out of the town of Hanford.
And what I wish to speak about
Is Georgie Beale, the fat young lout.

Georgie I hope gets no pudding or pie.
If you know that boy you won't ask why.
Georgie Beale is fat and sly.
He boos at girls and makes 'em cry.
He booed at Ione, he booed at Martha,
He booed Mattie Ellis and called her smarty.

This is the way that Georgie boos.
He catches a girl without excuse,
Pinches her arm and calls her goose
And bats his eyes as he turns her loose.
He bats his eyes while this he cries -
"Mattie, bum-battie, to the air go fattie,
E-leg, i-leg, bow-legged Mattie."

Mattie bum-battie likes candy and toys.
Mattie has troubles and Mattie has joys.
Mattie Ellis can make an awful noise.
Mattie don't like such piggie boys.
When Georgie booed her it made her shriek.
She boxed his ears and slapped his cheek.

Georgie got mad when he got that box.
Georgie ain't used to such hard knocks.
Georgie is stout as a stub-nosed ox.
Georgie has fists as hard as rocks.
He chased poor Mattie and tore her clothes,
And then he hit her bing on the nose.

He hit her so hard, with an upward blow,
That up in the air she started to go
And kept on going. O my oh!
No girl ever went so high, I know.
Georgie got scared and homeward sped
And hid himself beneath the bed.

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