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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 405, 25 September 1889, Page 8

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fi'lu- following Folutian of tho W.iinronpo> n d-'i. iny<d<?ry (!) haR Wen puppheU bv a iu.-fii 7^>rt.— Kn.] iS ■ v v- Mr Editor give mo Bomr. spnoo Tiii^ wonderful pto--c. ofcpg mystery to Iraeo, 1 I »ow nil yonr rea c--b will i*ny 'two? too had "When they hear how poor MiaForsman was " had " 1 li-ivo ecen the pood lady— she showed ma the lion ; 1 ; RKpd for " a silting "—she looked fnch a gem ; I ouklrce that the bird hud n load on hot mind, Siho toll me hcv tale, and Iro put. it in rhj mo, " T-nas a cold windy night.— on my perch nil serene Tily sVep wns fliFlinhocl 1-y a ifwiliWlrrnin : TLc effect of that rticcm <?ave mv liencl quite a droop, .And aaother 6urli night -would have given me the croup learnt thai tho night was both dreary and dark, Thai, Jim cilery's hoys wpio lvnt on ala«l\ ■ (. heard, stcalt'iy footsteps appronoliai^ my ho'jse, s \A silenUy listened as quid fv> « moi b\ •rht.l] the wind sceiiicd to chop, and left eveiyihing still, The moon too just then pcopodo\«?r tho hill, \\ hcu I «aw a young couple, of loTCrs I'll swear, Come behind my poor house to H spoon " I declare, '"I'c 1 idy was dark find tho gent h<> was fnii\ A. 1 oh! the sv,eet nothings t!i(\t passed twixt the pair, .■i % ai-e bound to be mated, but uere sorely di-.trest Ifow could they manage to ralvo up a nest. I heard ihe old story— -they will find it's not true — That what will keep o-ie will always keep two, l\.i r sweet pledges of love surely eamo from the he^rt, Tn 'Ii joy would be crowned could they just get a etaxt. A n 1 liow it remindod me of my younsr days % .fl'ea Carroll's big dorking my beauty did praise, Wt> mated, I hatched him some lovelyyoo cl^icks", He turned out a Mormon, now I'm ma *> But hark I a slight rustle, their "spoon' » a ; an end, j heir lovely young faces together no olend, .fibre's a terrible smack — I awoke with a pcream, v i.tside of my house, no loveis aie seen JS ot. against my good mistress I have a H grudge, f-he puts my eggs under a dirty old smudges; <[ .cive : — I can help the young people ,as ° well, A shynio I will raise on my nest dainty shell." MoralI' oung lovers from fowl houses always keep dear, riemernber that every j-oung^ duck has an ear, Pieiv ember, when trjing the old people to fool, 1 lint all our asylums we pretty near full But make haste to the "Gordon " and don't be atraid, IJake ha«te to the " Gordon " your fortune is made, _>ial:e haste, theie is money in fowls it is said, Leave Dick and Louisa a house read;} made. J. CoIiNEE, Te Aroha. Sept. 20th, 1889.