HARD TIMES IN PAWLING, NEW YORK

Sometimes the ghost of former governor

Thomas E. Dewey allows his famous mustache

To grow ragged. His gaze becomes dull;

Even cats feel for him some pity. "The Comtesse,"

They say, "is working on her memoirs.

She has reached page seven thousand and two

And has not mentioned him once."

SOCIAL NOTES

In the purlieus of Pawling the Comtesse
Begins her summer progress. On request,
She will sing or tell stories or dance
Among the tombs to keep the fiends at bay.
Since there is no king in Pawling, the dapper ghost
Of Thomas E. Dewey touches against scrofula;
The Comtesse gives thin gold coins to the victims
With her picture stamped upon them.