A paneer detained by police when she paraded along Park-avenue, New York, in a scanty costume, with a fawn on a leash, ¢x-plained that she was going to a rehearsal at the World's Fair—Reuter.
Mary had a little fawn And a little on as well, She wandered up Park-avenue And people murmured, "Swell!" But constables were not impressed, They merely masked a yawn: They said to Mary, "Come on, kid"
(And also came the fawn) "Twas then explained who Mary was And why she wandered so—A World's Fair dancer she (with fawn)—And so they let her go.
The constables returned to work:
The mystery was clear: For Mary was—of course one means She had a little deer.—By F. G. H. Salusbury in the "Daily Herald."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.