W.C. Mulaly

Flirting on the Ice

Song, tempo di schottische. H. D'Alcorn. London, 1878.
Words and music by Mulaly, 'sung with immense success by Miss Lisa Weber'.

To Regent's Park one day I took my love with me,
To pass the time away in skating merrily.
When on the gliding stell she whispered once or twice
Oh George, my George, pray don't reveal
Our flirting on the ice...

A 'stell' is a partial enclosure made by a wall or trees. Skating on the lake had been made safer following a tragedy ten years earlier, when the ice had given way and forty people had drowned. It was now more shallow, and the mud floor had been concreted over.