WHAT ARE THE NEWSPAPERS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 57, 20 August 1877, Page 2

WHAT ARE THE NEWSPAPERS.

Organs that gentlemen play, my body, To answer the taste of the day,, my boy; Whatever it be, they hit on the key, And pipe in full concert away, my boy. News from all countries and climes, my boy, Advertisements, essays, and rhymes my boy; Mixed ap with all sorts of (f) lying reports, And published at regular times* my boy. Articles, able and wise, my boy, At least in the editor's eyes, my boy * Aad logic so grand, iliat few anderstand, To what in (he worW it applies, my boy fc Statistics, reflections, reviews, my boy k Little swaps to instruct and amuse, my ; boy. And lengthy deb&toSiO&matter.sof StateFor wise-beaded folks to peruse, my boy. The times as they were aad: they are,. my boy. » % The quibbles, and quirks of the bai\ my i boy, # ■& ■ I And, every week, a clever critiqpef k||Oo some rising theatrical star, my boy. ** 1 be ages of J upiters Moons, my boy,; The stealing at somebody's spoons, my k°y* ' m The state of the * crops, the style of theFops, i And, the witk of the publio buffoons, my boy» Who has got wawied, and to. whom^ my boy, |j Wha were cut off in their bloom,, myboy $ Who has had birth, on this sorrow*. stained earth, Aad who totters fast to. thfl tomb, my boy. The prices of cattle and grain, my boy* Dit cations to dig and to drain,, my boy ; Yet it would, takas me too. long to tell you in song. A quarter of what they contaia mj' I boy..