THE INSPECTOR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 93, 16 July 1880, Page 2

THE INSPECTOR.

The following song, signed "Bones," was picked up on Wednesday nifcht near the Public Hall. The inference of course is that " Bones " dropped it from his pocket, and waß therefore unable to sing it as a local hit, at the Christy performance. Tune — " Upidee." The shades of night were falling fast, As through the streets of Foxton passed With very long strido and rapid, pace A man who seemed to b& runnitig a race. - I thought at first that he was drunk, But soon I saw be was in a funk ;. lib face was haggard, hit breath was short, On his back he carried a school report. As he passed me by I saw him scowl, And low Scotch he muttered in a growl - Tho words I could not understand ; They sounded base as a German band. I soon found why away he strode, When the Dominie round the cerner showed,— A roan who never knew how to skulk, — A game old warrior, bold old Hulke. Away in the rear came the Com— ittee, Fire Burgess — es brave of this city, And though] ust gone was the light of day, One looked Thynne and th« other Gray. No wonder the man in the front did run Away from those who behind did come, For they'd made up their minds to have some sport With the man who murdered the school report. — Bones.