THE "BETTING" LAND.
(New Version of " The Better Land.") 1 hear thee speak of the " Betting" Land,-— Thou callest its dwellers a sportive band. Is it, where the turf ia all worn away, And they stand upon stools and shout numbers all day P Is it where all the orowd oarry bag,s and , books, Are so loud in their dress and so wild in their looks ? Where the men, like the legs of their trousers, seem " tight," And tho language is much the reverse of polite P Whore they blend manhood's favourite "big big D," With that-friend of our infancy "bouncing B"? Is it where they aU—be these "figures of fun"? Of " fifties to fives," two-to-one-bar-one," And other obscure arithmetical larks ? Where one's fogged by their idiomatic remarks About "welching" and "roping" and "putting the pot on," And " laying their shirts," which all seem of stiiped cotton? Ib it where rustic joskins and shop-boys crowd, And where even the women for "tips" are toud ? Wherp. in fact, all the world appears utterly mad, Whoiiß-r frenziedly joyous or savagely sad ? Is it there, is it therp, mv child ! —Punch
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3152, 4 August 1881, Page 4
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188THE "BETTING" LAND. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3152, 4 August 1881, Page 4
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