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Advice to Girls Intending a
Pedestrian Tour

Go to bed before dark,
Be up with the lark;
Have your breakfast at seven,
Then walk till eleven.
Get your dinner at one
(Unless you’d have none,
But luncheon prefer
On a bank in the air).
Take tea about four,
Then walk three hours more;
Have your supper at eight—
That will not be too late.

When your Bible you’ve read,
And put down how you’ve sped,
Betake you to bed;
There rest till the morrow
Without care or sorrow.
Awake at the dawn
Of the following morn,
And your journey pursue
Through the morning dew.

With “Da Capo” I end
And am truly your friend,
Unknown though I be,
Unless you can see
Who is meant by – S.G.
P.S.—If the weather is fine
These counsels of mine
Will fit to a “T”;
But if wet it be,
You must alter your plan,
And walk—when you can.

—(Girl’s Own Paper, 1883)

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