HUMOUROUS THE SONG OF THE MOSQUITO.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 241, 11 February 1888, Page 7 (Supplement)

HUMOUROUS THE SONG OF THE MOSQUITO.

Hum ! hum ! I'm coming, coming. Don't you hear me humming, humming, Like some tfistaut drummer drumming His tired troops to s.eep ? Rat-tat-tftt, and hum hum-hum, Near, more near, I como, I come, With some to dine, to sup with some, With all a feast to keep. Hum! hum! I'm coming, coming. Don't you hear me humming, humming ? Don't you feel me thrumming, thrumming 'Round and 'round your head ? I am choosing some fair placo In that field you call your face, There to rest me for a space, While supper shall be spread. Hum J hum ! How neat you are ! Hum ! hum I How sweet you are 1 Hum-m ! hunvm i Too sweet by far. I'll dally for a bit Try you there, and try you here ; Taste your chin, your cheek your ear; And that lino of forehead near, Ere settling down to it. Hum J hum 1 You cannot say I sup and dine, and do not pay. Behind mo, when I go away, Just here, and noro, and here, I leave a tiny, round » bright spot— A brand-new coin, laid down red-hot, In full return for all J got. I pay most dear, most dear. Hum ! hum ! I've supped, and rarely, And you still are sleeping fairly. Huni-hum-hum ! We twain part Bqxiaroly, All my dues I pay for. One more taste, and one moro sip, From your eyelid, from your lip, Then away I*ll skip-skip-skip— . There's nothing more to stay for. !

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