"THE GOOD OLD TIMES"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 75, 8 July 1942, Page 2

"THE GOOD OLD TIMES"

Life is for love and laughter while you maySang good old fashioned folk in their hey-day— Accompanied by spinnets sweet and slow— Gone with those who played, them long ago. When DukeS and Earls, and their titled girls— Wore perriwigs and powdered curlsPatronised hot punch and cherry gin— Wore coal-scuttle bonnets, and cri.no] in; Swallow-tail coats, skin-tight pantaloons; Used sedan chairs on wet afternoons. When gentlemen were gentlemen, they said— Who carried well, their wine, from board to bedWon or lost their all, at sports or play— On the turf, or around card tables g»yWhen His Lordship or the Squire would call— The countryside to grace the County Ball. The good old times, with plenty for the few » Born with silver spoons to> stir their stew. Good wine, good feeding and good breeding— Nothing lacking, naught to care for, nothing heeding, Hard Jiving, gambling, swearing and hard drinking, Of what may hap to-morrow? never thinking. Hunting, shooting, paceing, pleasure chasing— Such Avas our "Dear Old England"' I in the making. • A land of many wrongs, with one redeeming right "Where liberty is threatened," England's there to fight. 11. SERGANT.