THE GOLD FEVER AND ITS EFFECTS.
The malady is come, we feel its sting Borne swiftly on by its polluting wing. No doctor here or skill'd physician's brain Has yet prescrib'd to soothe its gnawin«pain. ° ° The dire infection spreads, its germs are cast, Each ship augments the fury of its blast. The type and press gives forth its upas' food, Which irritates the anxious patient's blood ; Still its news columns they anxiously peruse, Which opens up their bleeding wounds anew ; Then tremblingly they wipe their fever'd heads, Count their money, go sleepless to their beds, To dream of golden El Dorados fair, Restless, writhing in their blankets there. The fever'd anguish haunts them in their sleep, Their restless movements make the blankets creep, Until each cloth hath fallen on the floor, And leaves the patients almost nude to snore, Who dream about the heated torrid zones, Regardless of their own poor freezing bones. They next awake to chant their old, old song, "Cambridge!" "Derby!" "Kimberley!" all day long. By J. E., in a Hot Fever. Dillman's Town, June, 1, 1886.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2989, 2 June 1886, Page 2
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180THE GOLD FEVER AND ITS EFFECTS. Kumara Times, Issue 2989, 2 June 1886, Page 2
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