THE MICROPHONE.
The adage says that bigger fleas Have on their backs to bite 'em Lesser fleas and lesser fleas— So on, ad infinitum. By the aid of science now, instead Of looking for the varmin, You hear the little beggars sing In a style that might be charmin', If 'twere "not that experience shows With proof most irrefutable, That the pulex takes its tone, of course, From the outer human cuticle.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 220, 27 August 1878, Page 3
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72THE MICROPHONE. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 220, 27 August 1878, Page 3
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