<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Her "Allowance!"</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">'Er looked at me bunnet (I knows 'e aint noo!)</p><p class="line">'Er turned up 'er nose at the patch on me shoe!</p><p class="line">And 'er sez, pointed like, "Liza, what do 'e do</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">With yer 'llowance?"</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">'Er looked at the children (they'm clean and they'm neat,</p><p class="line">But their clothes be as plain as the victuals they eat):</p><p class="line">And 'er sez, "Why not dress 'em up fine for a treat</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">With yer 'llowance?"</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I sees 'er long feather and trimmy-up gown:</p><p class="line">I sez, as I looks 'er quite square up and down,</p><p class="line">"Do 'e think us keeps 'oliday 'ere in the town</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">With my 'llowance?"</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"Not likely!" I sez. And I bids 'er "Good-day!"</p><p class="line">And I kneels on the shabby old canvas to pray</p><p class="line">For Bill, who's out fightin' such brave miles away.</p><p class="line">(And I put back a foo o' they coins for 'e may</p><p class="line">Be needin' a part -- may my Bill -- who can say? --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:10%">Of my 'llowance!)</p></div><p class="byline">-- Lillian Gard.</p></body></html> · Great War