THE DEFEAT OF THE “UNCO GUID.”
The defeat of the “ Unco Cuid” of Dunedin,-’and the triumph of the FreeThinkers at the recent; School Com-mittee;-ejection. in that city, ,has been haniled down to posterity in. heroic verse by thb .poet-laureate of New Zealand, Mr Tliomds Bracken. The Secretary bf the-Free-Thinkers Association isone- W. Bolt, and he was elected, with others of his creed, by a large majority. The . liallad, ;,which is.amusing throughout,, concludes, thus And noo. a ballot they hae ta’en, The votes are a’ set.doon, And they hae chosen bot seven men To educate the toon, 0, waly, up the hill, And waly,' waly, doom the holt, And wae’s me, that the infidels They plllinped for W. Bolt. They hae pitteh him ill at the tap o' the tree, With votes from ninety-five; O, that'my een should see this sicht, And Ibe still alive., ; Come hither, come hither, my little schule . lad, And dihna greet, thou dolt, And look thy reading hook, and say Wha the deil’s this W. Bolt ? 0, W. Bolt was W, Bolt, And naething mare was he, , But, thanks, to his gtiid friends wha plumped, He’is hod on the COhmiittee. 1 ■'ill !(! U’i-: 1 ’ r ; -
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2159, 19 February 1880, Page 3
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199THE DEFEAT OF THE “UNCO GUID.” South Canterbury Times, Issue 2159, 19 February 1880, Page 3
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