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Since schools to teach one this or that

        Are being started every day,

I have the plan, a notion pat,

        Of one which I am sure would pay.

'Twould be a venture strictly new,

        No shaking up of dusty bones;

How does the scheme appeal to you?

        A regular school for chaperones!

One course would be to dull the ear,

        And one would be to dim the eye,

So whispered love they'd never hear,

        And glance coquettish never spy;

They'd be taught somnolence, and how

        Ofttimes closed eye for sleep atones;

Had I a million, I'd endow

        A regular school for chaperones!

There's crying need in West and East

        For graduates, and not a source

Supplying it. Some one at least

        Should start a correspondence course;

But joy will scarce o'errun the cup

        Of maidenhood, my candor owns,

Till some skilled Mentor opens up

        A regular school for chaperones!