THE MILITIA.
TUose morning drums I those rooming drums I Ala* their warning never corae§ To wake us now by early light, Aed teach u» ah to match and fight. Alas those drum*! their voice is run, Tbeir rapid voice of '• Row dow'' done ; Gerunds supine, io patsjve sense, They're s-trangled in tbeir The fifer was oi—Wood, po—and Ligar, dum, We ting tile end of disdo-duni. PIGDUH FI)J*NID)B. 4MB Did our readers ever hear of one Ferdinando Mendej Pinto—or of Ba-
ron Munchausen, or do any of them know any one of the writers who do the extravagant caricatures upon truth, which are made for fun in the Yankee journals.—Though they should be acquainted with all these—yet is the following an improvement—aye even though we should throw the narratives of Major Longbow into the scale. No wonder this was not published here. We copy it from the Sydney Herald of the 17th June—and we see by the tone of our contemporary, that it has not imposed upon him. We are grateful to him. however for this gem of vera-city-if we had the means we would set it in type of adamantine brass ! We should like to give Heki and Kawiti copies of it—in language they could understand. i
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Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 135, 9 August 1845, Page 2
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208THE MILITIA. Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 135, 9 August 1845, Page 2
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