AD ANCILLAM.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 124, 24 November 1876, Page 5

AD ANCILLAM.

(to a servant-girl.) She is only a hand-maid on duty With a payment-deferred cockatoo, But for baking and boiling and beauty You will find me her match 'mong but

few ; She lives close beside Tapanui, — She wears her own hair in a net, — Our houses are just within coo-ec ; And her name is Lisette.

If her fingers ain't white, they are

nimble, And useful, and shapely enough ; They can handle an axe or a thimble, And don't feel a little bit rough ; Her waist ain't too stout nor too taper, But exactly the thing to embrace ; Her neck is like cream-laid notepaper *, Like ripe peaches her face. In accomplishments sonic may exceed her, Though she knows quite enough to my mind ; She can read her Prayer-book and the Leader, *• And write pretty plain when inclined. She can dress — though the " fashions" be newer ; She can break both a heart and a horse ; And young sparks from all round come to woo her, As a matter of course. She can sing sacred music on Sunday, And secular, too, when it suits, And is equally ready on Monday To dance you clean out of your boots ; And at Church, when I see other felloWS y Admiring her over their books, It makes me consumedly jealous — What a darling she looks. - But alas ! how/should I hope for favour, Where others more wealthy aspire ? Some saw- miller or squatter will have her, : I am only a fencer in wire. Yet I hope tins, in: print, won't escape her : - T'm the chap with the reddish moustache, The blue tie, and the collar of paper, And some small ready cash. And should she approve of the notion Of yoking her future with mine, . ;. I will love her with all the deyqtion' , I've h ithei'to given unto 'wine ; J And I'll not sigh for wealth nor fine raiment, ' '""•< • But shall think' myself blest if I get ' Store credit on long-deferred payment,.: A weather-board house,— and Lizette. " WIREPULLER. " Tapanui, Nov. 6,; 18761 i. ;:. . .