"I MEAN TO WAIT FOR JACK."

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 68, 20 September 1884, Page 4

"I MEAN TO WAIT FOR JACK."

Sweet Kate at Wyndham's dairy and Jack of Oldham Mill— Oh, long they wood and fond they coo'd, a faithful Jack and Jill ! But times were bad for lass and lad, and sadly both confessed Tvvas not the thing to buy the ring before they'd lined the nest. "Courage, lad!" said Katie. "Yes, we,U have to wait ; But though, my dear, it's twenty year, I'll take no other mate." But England wanted Jacky, for war was in the air, And arms more grim were press'd on him than Katie's bonny pair. So all through Spam, in rough campaign, he chivied bold Mossoo, And fired his gun and made him run like fun at Waterloo. When the lads came round her, Katie bade them pack. " There's girls enow for you to woo ; I mean to wait for Jack." The gray in Katie's ringlets was mingled with the brown, When, bump-a.thump, an eager stump came pegging through the town. "It's mo, you see come back," says he, " except a leg or so ; And safe and sound here's twenty pound ; so let the parson know." Jingle, jangle, jingle ! set the bells a-chime. And health and bliss to love like this that bravely bides its time. Frederick Langbridge.