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Thanks, Texas. You can't imagine the way my heart beat when I got that last picture in. I had a very hurried buying spree at the end to get the best images I could find for every line. There are more images in the Kindle than paperback because I wasn't space constrained, so I went back through my images and stuffed almost every line. What saves me from total penury is that I'm good at Photoshop, so I can even buy an image with problems and fix it. I can replicate torn corners and remove gashes and scratches. The cover image was a total disaster originally and was a complete remake. It just felt like the essence of the book. Santa loving women. And the title comes from:

When she swims in the dance or wherever she goes
She's crowded by witlings, plain-fellows & beaux
Who throng at her elbow & tread on her toes.

If a pin or a hankerchief happen to fall
To seize on the prise fills with uproar the hall:
Such pulling and hawling & shoving & pushing
As rivals the racket of 'key & the cushion;'
And happy - thrice happy! too happy! the swain
Who can replace the pin or bandana again.

Tho the fellows surround & so humbly adore her
The girls on the contrary cannot endure her;
Her beauty their beauty forever disgraces
And her sweeter face still eclipses their faces.
For no lov'ly girl can a lov'ly girl bear
And fair-ones are ever at war with the fair.