SCOTTY’S LAMENT.
Our painstaking ranger, one .Jamie Al< , ■ Dotli haunt our broad streets by day and by night. He spotted.a horse and a tiny wee foal, And with crack of his whip he made them geo-00. He coaxed them along to the pound that’s so strong. Ne'er dreaming a moment of anything, wrong. After a day and a night, and a night and a day Tie sadly discovered the foal refused hay. The horse, as a ‘'lie,” lord; on a big sulk, Am! to “Scott \V disgust ■refused to give nnlk. T hen the ranger declared, to the foal’s great delight, “I'll mollicr llml foal, or my name's nor Ab !”
X'ow “Seattie” is haunted by day and by night By a horse with a foal, and llie horse not a wife. And the people are laughing at “Mae’s” diseoni enl —- Bo emlelb liie lesson of ‘Seoltie's’ lam; nl. —BROKHBPHIi;.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2143, 24 June 1920, Page 3
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149SCOTTY’S LAMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2143, 24 June 1920, Page 3
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