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1887.
Where the young lady waiters were dressed as dairymaids.
Throughout the world they do extol / The fame of our town Ingersoll, / The capital of dairyland, / To-night it seems like fairy land, / The youth and beauty here arrayed, / So sweet and neat each dairymaid.
And worthy of a poet's theme, / Sweet and smooth flows milk and cream, / For song or glee what is fitter / In this land of cheese and butter, / But no young man should be afraid / To court a pretty dairymaid.
And far abroad he should not roam / But find a charmer here at home, / Find some one now your heart to cheer, / Thus celebrate the jubilee year, / Remember long this ladies' aid / And each bewitching dairymaid.