THE DUMMY COMMITTEE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 512, 10 June 1881, Page 2

THE DUMMY COMMITTEE.

"Half-a crown, half-a-crown, Half-a-crown 'anty Up,' ye defaulting ones," Cried the Five Members. " We've an election made Of our five selves," they said, " And to pay up are bade Long-winded Members!" " Get all accounts now paid ; Nay, do not look dismayed, Not though we five well know We're not all Members. Mac wil. not dare to peach, (W)right on cur side will preach ; Four of us five are each School Committee Members. " Quorums we have not got; That matters not a jot ; It's our turn to have a shot. Some one remembers That to excuse them well ■* We will some story tell How three and two should spell Eight, if they could count well." Clever Five Members ! Flashed their mistake so bare Just they thought that their Error was hidden where No one woidd find it e'er. But other Members Said they the Act had broke ; Ilill-top and Guily spoke ; Said they'd no standing. Reeled the five from the stroke, Tried hard to spoil the joke, Failed, and resigned—all— All the Five Members ! Members to right of them, Members to left of them, Members in front of them, Quorum on quorum. Storn*"d at by hill and dell, New election they'd not hear tell. "No notice was given." But Seven were elected—well, Two were still left of them, Left quinque sociorum. When shall th' caclandre fade Of the mistake they made ? Each one remembers ; And when our books are old We'll think how awful sold Weie the Five Members ! Le Bon's, Juno 7. 1881.