THE PICNIC.

Kumara Times, Issue 1001, 15 December 1879, Page 3

THE PICNIC.

[T\jne—" When Johnny comes marching home."] The jolliest-tinie of-ail the year . Is New Year's Day. My word ! it 's something to be here -_ On New Year's Day ! Our picnic then is not like some, For when the .band plays up pompom, O, everybody 's bound to come, On New Year's Day. We march, you know, in rank and file, On New Year's Day ; To see us then is worth your while, On New Year's Day : From biggest bovs to tiniest tilings, All marching on in endless strings— The jgirls, you'ld think that they had frings On New Year's Day. There's all the parsons and the priest, Oh .New Year's Day ; And 'teachers, half a score at least, On New Year's Our M.H.R., with lungs so sound, Will be the first ,nian on the ground, With major Pearn, so plump and sound, On New Year's Day. It's hard to tell what all .will be On New Year's Day ') We 've an enterprising Committee, i .. ,Fp r New Year's Day ; We'll have the old games o'er again, Provided that it doesn't rain : Above all mind the swings,, John Bain, For New Year's Day ! Without a word of idle boast ' ; 'Bout New Year's Day, There 's nothing like it on the Coast, On New Year's Day. By the by, how's your subscription list 1 — Got anything from old close-fist ? " O ! he hardly needed to be press'd, For New Year's Day." It's wonderful how it's all get up, On New Year's Day ; We quite eclipse the Melbourne Cup, • ? On New Year's Day, It's true, so help mo, Jemmy Rugg, For when we 're seated nice and snug, We all produce a Kumara muggj On New Year's Day. There 's many stories, very old, Of New Year's Day ; There 's many new ones to be told, Of New Year's Day : We read of Christmas pantomimes, And glorious May-days, sung in rhymes ; They cant give us much start, these times, On New Year's Day. A. B.