WHAT ARE THE NEWSPAPERS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 110, 7 August 1877, Page 2

WHAT ARE THE NEWSPAPERS.

Organs that gentlemen play,.my boy, To answer the tu.ste of the day, my boy ; ■ Whatever it be, they ldt on the key, And pipe in full concert away, my boy. News from all countries and climes, my boy, Advertisements, essays, and. rhymes my boy ; Mixed up with all sorts of (f) lying;^ re posts, Ami published at regular times, my boy. Articles üble and witse, my boy, At least in the editor's eyes, my boy ; Aud logic so grand,, that few under-* stand, To. what in the world it applies, my boy, Statistics, reflections, reviews, my boy, Little scraps to i_-.truct and. jwnu.se,. my And lengthy debate, <mi matters of States For wise-headed folks to- peruse, my boy. The times as they were and they are, my boy. The quibbles and quirks of the bar, my boy, And every week, a clever critique, On some rising theatrical star, my boy. The ages of iupiters Moons, my boy, The stealing of somebody's spoons, my boy ; The state of the crops, the style- of th& Fops, And the wit of the public buffoons, my boy, Who has got married, and to whom, my boy, Who were cut off in their bloom, my boy; **" Who'has had birth, on this sorrow-stained earth, And who- totters fast, to the-tomb, my boy. _ The prices of cattle and grain, ray boy, Directions to dig and to drain,my boy; Yet it would take me too long to tell you in uong, A quarter of-jwhat they contains-say boy. P-C.