GREYMOUTH PUNTCH.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 579, 2 October 1869, Page 2

GREYMOUTH PUNTCH.

| It was recently mentioned in these columns that the September number of Greymouth Punch had been abstracted from the table of the Literary Society Reading Room. We are sorry to say thn,t after the lapse of nearly a month the number has not been returned, and as it was entirely pen and ink work it cannot be replaced. One who has taken the loss seriously to heart has sent us the following, which we publish in the hope that it may cause the delinquent to see the enormity of his crime, and send back Punch : — Of all the mean actions that lately I've hard on, The meanest, most spiteful, and yet most absurd one, Was the theft by some scoundrel, whose bones I could crunch, Of the last, and, so far, the best number of Punch. May his conscience so prick him that he may restore it, By stealth to the table whence sometime he bore it ; Or else on his shoulders be there stuck a hunch, To point out the blackguard that walked off with Punch. Or if to the North his steps he should bend, May he be taken in, and robbed by his friend ; And I hope that Te Kooti may eat up for lunch. The blackguardly scoundrel that walked off with Punch. May his foe 3 work their will, and his friends prove unkind, Till they drive the poor beggar quite cut of his mind ; May his teeth tumble out till his grub he can't munch, The rascally-scoundrel that walked off with Punch. Or may he repent of the deed he has done, For he's safe to be found out as sure as a gun j And then of my fives I would fain thrust the bunch, In the face of the blackguard that walked off with Punch ! '