Young Folks.
GLUTTON BEK !There was a very greedy boy—■ They called him Glutton Ben : Bis appetite was large enough For half-a-dozen men. One Christmas night he ate and ate From eight o’clock to ten ; And when he crept to bed, folks thought - He’d ne’er get up again. A dozen yelling savages Eocle o’er the mountain crest; An eagle from the sky swept down And bore him to her nest; And then a donghty drayman dumped . A hogshead on his breast; ’Twas the horrid nightmares Broke in upon his rest. His face grew pallid in its pain, His legs they were up-bent; The'doctor felt his throbbing pulse With’attitude intent. “A surfeit of plum-pudding, this,” Was his blunt comment ; He wrote out a prescription, And then away he went,
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 39, 23 December 1893, Page 20
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128Young Folks. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 39, 23 December 1893, Page 20
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