GIVE US BACK THE TAILS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 208, 2 September 1874, Page 3

GIVE US BACK THE TAILS.

If we, as Mr Darwin says. From monkeys are descended, Old Time, in (/bunging I.Dings, hath not As yd t.hu mailer mended. Dcacondants of our ancestors. Have no such times as they, Who had no rent, of house or tax < -f Government to pay. IS’o tailor bills cu;no ia—JDamo Nature Clothing gave And freaks of fashion did not make Of monkey-girl a slave. So the oldon way’s the happiest way The new condition fails; And, Darwin, if you can, my boy, Just giro ua back the tails. ’No Is n rrying out of bed had they. No bolting breakfast down, No hasty walk to shop in fear Of some old boss’s frown. Ti ic lady monkey sat not up Till day the night did rout.. In waiting for the lodge to close And Set, her hushani out.. They had no voles, ’tis true, but l.heyVl No ol'leers to keep, And o’ cr defaulter’:* cash account They never had to weep. So the edden wav’s the happiest way The new condition fails ; An 1, itarw.n, if von carl, my hoy, Jus! give ns b .ck the tails. Thi y had no fa-hton’s promenade, When; }>'■•! nt % ’-i fee! con Id stray; ihd ! Inn the old ho - •U;< >! i>i i •}' had No mil liver to pav. They h ; 1 i; > wimp rhe monkeys young, Th rough night, to k; cp a forming ; They save thereby (you know yourself ) A. h.-iidneh») in tlte morning. A pea •e f ul race were < liey, who ne’er 'Do war’s appeal did Jjy ; They saved thereby occasion fur A Joint. Commi-?ion high. A smarter race were they than Which from them hath descended, And Time:; by changing things hath not As yet the mailer mended. For ! he rdd>*n way’s the happiest way, 'the new c>m;i i! inn? fad? ; So ! tit-win, ii yon c-m, my boy, I’i case give us back tins Sail .