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WHHff PATHS S CASTES THE DUCK. Wi all look on with asxioua eyes 1 * When father carres the duck. And mother almost always sighs When father canres the- duck. * Than all of us prepare to rise, And hold our bibe before out eyes, And be prepared for some surprise, When father cams the duck. Ha bracts up aid grabs a fork Whsae'er he carves a duck. And woa't allow a soul to talk Until he's carved the duck. The fork is jabbed into the side*, Aercss the breast tha knife he slides, While every careful person hides From flyUg chips of duck.
The platter's always sate to slip . I When father carves the dock. And how it makes the dishes skip I Potatoes fly amuck! <f| The sovath and cabbage leap ia space, We get some gravy in our face, And fathers mutters Hindoo grace Whene'er he carves a duck. We then have learned to walk around The dining-roca, and pluck From cff the window-sills and walls, Our share of father's duck. • While father growls and blows and jaws, And says the knife was full of flaws, And mother jeers at him because,.' He couldn't carve the duck.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 406, 18 February 1904, Page 2
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199POETRY Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 406, 18 February 1904, Page 2
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