THREE ACRES AND A COW.
The following are verses of the latest English political song, which appeared after Mr Jesse Codings had made his proposal tiiat all lands In Great Britain should be cat up into three.acre blocks and distributed among the people :
Good times are coming on apace to every mother’s sou; The Brummagem millennium is now all but begun. We’re all to have a bit of land, and learn to speed the plough, And live for ever happy on three acres and a cow.
Each Wilts and Dorset labourer will be a country squire, And never work again no more, for nobody, on hire ; But live at ease, and keep his ducks and chickens and a sow, With lots of little piggies, on three acres and a cow.
The working man will leave Ills work, his tools, and his machines; Our soldiers and our sailors and our gallant Horse Marines Will throw np their services and candidly avow They think they can do h-.-t'er with three acres and a coir,
A poor old tailor with a wife and seven little brats, Who starve together in Soho, like nine lean hungry rats, Has gone quite crazy with delight, and tells them they shall now All live like fighting-cocks upon three acres and a cow.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2912, 27 February 1886, Page 3
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215THREE ACRES AND A COW. Kumara Times, Issue 2912, 27 February 1886, Page 3
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