HIAWATHA TRAVESTIED.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 21 November 1861, Page 6 (Supplement)

HIAWATHA TRAVESTIED.

Tlio following inimitable lines arc taken at random from Puck on Pegasus, by H. Cholmondeley Pennell. They arc suggested by the rather droll incident of a fashionable young lady, with a waterproof crinoline, lloating down a river past a philosophic pig, whose reverie and munching she dis-. turbs : From the forest shade primeval Piggey-wiggey looked out at her; - lie the very Youthful Porker — lie the hiverhisting 0 rim ter— Gazed upon her there, and wonder’d With his nose out, rokey-pokey—- ' With his tail up, curley-wurley— W onder d what on earth the row meant, W r onder’d what the girl was up to, W hat the douce her little game was. BABY-HOOD. (From “Puck ox Pegasus, by 11. CuolmoxDEXI'Y Pexxel.) Behold the soft little struggling ball W ith rosy mouth ever ready to squall, Kicking and crowing and grasping “ small,” At its India-rubber dangle ; Whilst tiny fists in the pillows lurk That are destined, perhaps, for fighting the Turk And doing no end of mangling work, Or perhaps—-for working a mangle ! Tis passing strange that all over the earth Men talk of the “stars” that “rule” at their birth! For little such dazzling sponsors are Worth Whatever astrologers say. Tho’ all the Bears in the heavens combined— Mars, Mercury, Ten us, and Jupiter shined In our glittering horoscope—we shall find Most men who arc bom of woman-kind Are bom in the Ml let WAT,