Miscellany.
SELECT P.OETRY.
THE DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBER.
One day last week, while sad and dreary, Aβ we wended, weak and weary, Across the unswept lioor, We heard, at first, a gentle tapping, «, Then it became an earnest rapping "" At our sanctum door. " Come in !" we said.yet while wo ponder'd And in silence we still wondered *" What for us could be in store ; Then, the door-bolt gently turning, In he walked. Our cheek was burning ! Thoughts of crimson gore. " Are you the man who does tlie writing ?" (What word will rhyme with this but fighting ? Quickly thought we, o'er and o'er) " Sir, we are," we gently told him, Nodding to the boys to hold him, If he tried to beat us aore. "**" " Then you'll please give me a credit Opposite that little debit, For two dollars more ; I JifeSr-your paper and will take it As long ac you strive to make it Aβ good as it has been before." We jumped ! he dodged ! thus we missed „. him, _ ~Or we should have surely kissed him, No matter if tho boys did roar ! So seldom treated in this manner, Wβ felt inclined to sing hoßannah ! Only this and nothing more. —Rural New YorJeer.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 438, 1 October 1880, Page 3
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199Miscellany. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 438, 1 October 1880, Page 3
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