THE GROWL OF A GRUMBLER.
Know ye Ihe land where the goose and the crrunter Are emblems of those who inhabit the dime ; Whore the natives contrive, through a long dreary winter, With whiskey and scandal to pass away time ? Where thick o'er the desert the supple jack twines ; Where flowers never blossom, and sun never shine 1 * ; Where potatoes and cabbages are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the talebearer never is mute. Know ye the country where whiskey is rife, And loafing at corners the business of life ; Where a quarrel concludes a ball, concert, or rout, And you are for ever expected to shout ? "fis the land of the South—'tis Otago the blest— t The " Canaan" of promise to all the distressed } As dull as the mud in a ditch that is found, Are the hearts which they bear, and the notes which they sound. L. F. Notk. — Mr. Punch begs to observe that the above is only inserted as a specimen of the distorted views indulged in by a small neetion of the community ; and not at all because he in the slightest degree coincides in the very erroneous ideas therein set forth. — Dunedin Punch.
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Evening Post, Issue 147, 28 July 1865, Page 3
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200THE GROWL OF A GRUMBLER. Evening Post, Issue 147, 28 July 1865, Page 3
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