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Title: The Buntling ball, a Græco-American play; being a poetical satire on New York society
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Fawcett, Edgar, 1847-1904
Subjects: Socialites
Publisher: New York (etc.) Funk & Wagnalls
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Mrs. Buntling. Anastasia Buntling, faithfulspouseOf stout Alonzo, potentatein Pork,Westward return with lord and loving childAcross Atlantics many-sounding dcc\\Borne safe between the stanch Cunarders ribs.Wave-furrowing, tempest-baffling, huge of bulk, 6 THE BUXTLIXG BALL. Long was our stay in European lands, And frequent were the marvels that we met, Whereof in ample text, with patient skill, Already the wise Baedeker hath told : Art-galleries, damp cathedrals, bad hotels, Innumerable ruins, mountains vast, Dishonest couriers and vivacious fleas. Things of great price we purchased as we roamed, Wrought by men famed with chisel or with brush— Rare statues, pictures, bronzes, good to range In sumptuous chambers when transpontine shores Would claim us ; but for me, my chief delight Was gathering varied garments, fold on fold Of beauteous texture, frilled and furbelowed In many a fantasy of sweet device ; The last fair whims of fashions dainty mood, Expensive, hateful to my husbands pbuntlingballgr00fawc

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