THAT MAID OF APIA.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 68, 18 January 1879, Page 3

THAT MAID OF APIA.

.She has an eye both wild and shy. Don't begin to jeeah ! But nil she does is on the sly, This maid of Apia. She has a brownish oily skin, Like those in Bahia, But she will ne'er have any tin, That maid of Apia. She has a name, why yes, why not ? Xo, its not Maria ; * She'll take good share of all you're got That maid of Apir. She wears a sixpence round her neck, I gave her last yeah, Hut fast she flies at every boek, That maid of Apia. Sometimes she whispers soft, and then She boxes my cab, Sin's just the sort to take in men, That maid of Apia. She often calls up at my house, for a glass of beeah ;T She is an awful little mouse, That maid of Apia. Next day she'll bring a palusami, I refuse,- -Xo feah ! Or else 'twill be a nin-satni, That maid of Apia. She cornea so oft, the bores ran so, Then she drops a teah. Would I marry her ? " not for Joe " ! That maid of Apia. Knough of (Jus, 'tis foolish fun, " Amo," do you heah ? The theme is low, so let's have dono With muids of Apia. Oit, My! Apia, 13th January, 1870. • Pronounced Afarceali. t I'octic for Pale alo I

TO*". Here's my farewell. Since language strong I loos iu your last appear, 1 will not UN dUputt.- prolong; ou now my judgment hear. i'iui from the first were plunged in grief Because 1 jarred your nerves ; [ called good Suum Caique "chief," A title he deserves, I simply said the air was sail, That some one was away ; The word* no double meaning had ; 1 led no one astray. Thf fuTetgnUingo was the same, All words of deepest praise ; Were you else than a classic lame, No hubLub you wonldinuae, It matters not. If it you pleaso Strong epithets to use, My mind, remember, is at ease, 1 no one did abuse.