The Disappointed Sailor Man.
Said this old sailor man: "A qniet life was my plan. While surrounded with Juvenile faces, I'd rig little boats, And tell nice anecdotes Of ships, storms and strange furrin races* The old style, don't yon know? Bnt, oh, dear, it won't go, For these kids know all I know and more With their learnin and travel. When yarns I unravel. They rises and votes me a bore!
"Their papas and mammas Takes them on the steam cars And the boats with thoir buzzln twin screw*North, wrath.east and west. Till, my timbers be blest, If aajrtlklac I .tell *«n *s newsl They have net the kbtdive. And they laugh in their sleeve 'Causo hi* oook's ancle's nephew I know. I'll weigh anchor again, And I'll search tho blue main For the lam! where the real children erowP —St. Nicholas.
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Manawatu Herald, 4 June 1896, Page 4
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143The Disappointed Sailor Man. Manawatu Herald, 4 June 1896, Page 4
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