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"Wanted, a way to stretch short pants,"

gray-jacket-s1-v2-n7-p6.jpg

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Title

"Wanted, a way to stretch short pants,"

Creator

[Unknown]

Source

http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1

Publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Date

May 1877

Contributor

Peter Royal, Abbey Williams

Rights

Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.

Format

Text

Language

English

Type

poem

Identifier

LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.7 (May 1877), p.6

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For the Gray Jacket.

Wanted, a way to stretch short pants,
For a man six feet two as he stands,
Apply third floor of College, East end;
Expect to be greeted: "How are you, friend?"
There are the breeches behind the door,
Pray kind friend, stretch to the floor.