LOVE SONG. BY A CHINA MANIAC. 0 my little tea-pot, My tiny little wee pot, I love my little tea-pot vastly better than my life! Call me silliest of ninnies, For it cost me fifty guineas, And with that a pretty present I could purchase for my wife. 1 could buy her a new bonnet, And an ostrich plume upon it, With a quarter of the money for my tea-pot I have paid; But I loved it with such madness, That I gave the price with gladness, And counted myself lucky such a purchase to have made, My tea-pot's spout is.broken, In a whisper be it spoken, And pray.don't touch the handle, for 'tis riveted you see; In the side there are sad cracks too, And a lid my tea-pot lacks too, • And 'tis ugly as 'tis useless in respect of making tea. Yet I'll nurse my tea-pot nightly, Though in shape it is unsightly, And its colors have all vanished like the flowers of last year; But I love my little tea-pot, My tiny chiny tea-pot, 'Cause it is such a rarity, and 'cause it is so dear! —Punch.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1613, 22 September 1874, Page 365
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190Page 365 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1613, 22 September 1874, Page 365
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