My hair will curl, even when shaved within half-an-inch of the scalp; my moustache will stay jet-black, although I sometimes wax the ends of it with soap, and walk on the sunny side of Broadway; my teeth are perfect, and I never need a dentist; and my hands are shameful for a man,so all my old-maid-aunts and bachelor-uncles say.

And yet, this once, your day shall have from me Some of the old observance, though I scoff; My thesis waits,my Valentine shall be The old-maid sister of my major prof.

In Naples this seemed so incredible that after she was gone, people spontaneously invented a companion for her and assured one another that she had sent for a distant and elderly old-maid cousin as a chaperon and protectress.

How the mignonette's sweet blooming was perfuming all the walks, Where the hollyhocks stood proudly with their blossom-dotted stalks; While the old-maids' pinks were nodding groups of gossips, here and there, And the bluebells swung so lightly in the lazy, hazy air!

Let me have part of a pack, just enough to play old-maid solitaire.

You won't even let me play old-maid solitaire?"

It was a compact, medium-sized herdvast males, mothers, old-maid elephants, long-legged and ungainly, young males just learning their strength and proud of it beyond words, and many calves.