The Archive · 1924

A Ballade of Sweeps

Where are the Swoops I might have won?

Goddess of Fortune, fickle jade, Why did I not deserve your aid? Surely nothing was left tndono "To gain your smile, elusive maid. Did I not buy them, every one, Tickots on A and, unafraid, For B as well my cash T paid. Where are the Sweeps I might have won?

Few that outbid mo, mayhap none Who made a badder, bolder raid, Out of the strife emerging frayed. But bearing in my hand not one But many tickets, unkind maid. Fighting to buy them was no fun; Yet, when downcast I homeward strayed, These poignant words were all I aid Where are the Sweeps I might have won?

Continue as follows:— st row—K. 2, P. 82, K. 2.

2nd row—Kait plain.

Repeat these two rows for 3 inches. At the end of the next two. rows cast on 26 stitches. Continue: in the plain smooth fabric (keeping. an edge of 3 knitted stitches) until 34 inches have been worked, ending with a knit row. Proceed as. follow:

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