TO W.M.
Here's at you my darling, for by the lord Harry, You seem like a girl who is right on the marry, And should we both prove to be " birds of a feather," Why darn, it let's " hitch up our horses together." As for being domestic, of that never fear, I've done my own cooking for many a year, And I think it's near time I turned o'er a new leaf, And got someone to give me a little relief. Now comes the most difficult feature of all, "A sensible man though his income is small," Goodness knows mine is small, but here I am stuck, For they' say that the biggest fools have the best luck. But fool that I am, I belong to that nation, That even will marry on pure speculation, So should you by accident turn up your toes, The hundred pounds then would buy me new clothes. Now there's one thing I'm short of, tofulfil my part, I must send the old mare for Iv« not got a cart, And if you accept her, right glad will I be, For then I shall think it a good omen for me.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 58, 6 February 1877, Page 2
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196TO W.M. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 58, 6 February 1877, Page 2
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