ABOUT A HORSE NAMED "TOMMY."

NZ Truth, Issue 73, 10 November 1906, Page 5

ABOUT A HORSE NAMED " TOMMY."

Right early m the morning you may hear poor Tommy neigii, With his head out through the sliprails, as though he meant to "Get up, you lazy people; don t stop m bed all deigh ! It's wrong to treat a pony m this : inattentive weigh ' ! :>> ; '

And it's really very funny, and I m sure that you would laugh, To see the way he prances when he smells the com and chaugh ! He bucks and jumps and dances, like a kid or yearling caugh ! It really is too funny, too comical by haugh !

So I think that I will take him, and I'll yoke him to the plough ; The ground is nice and crumbly, and turns over easy nough, And we'll grow some nice sweet barley, for Tommy and the coiiffh (At least we'll try to grow it, if the weather will allough).

For lately we have suffered from the long-continued .droueht, And our crops have all been withered, when they put their green leaves oup-ht ; Biit we're sturdy Ano-lo Saxon, and our hearts are yei <Tr stou^ht. And we've pot. the tin from F'lwin that there's heavy rnin a^nght !