OLD TIMES AND NKW.
W'ipp tit is old lint whs iiw The v.ii'und w.is ji Mu 'O, And a six mu'e ti'irn made plenty of steam For the Im cidcst kind of sn.ige. Ynn o au'.*ht a s" n <">se when yon wanted a pen, T!» Q ink wo usod wis blue. And the women 3ou laved didn't want to be nipn When this old hat was new. spad< was only a spado, And Jennie was jnvt plnin "Jane" Foi lii*< impudent lip si boy would skip At the end of a lutlnn cine. Tlwmc woio sixfoon ounces in oveiy pound, Four nn nt»j m iko a aallon true ; But Ihiivsdnn't Rt>oni like they used tq be W'lim tliisol(l hitxyas new. But we hnvo shortened the f uric since then, And we're mnninu: a faster heat, And the hnys of ton aie full blown men. Who inn the store and the street, We blush to sricr.Tle, and we should smile ; And we're cmV, and we never say die; Wo'rpup to snuff, nnd we're fullof Rllilo, And we're ju.-t too awf idly fly. And father is erovernor. 01.l mm, dad, And his old dnv is srnno : We run thinsrs fa^t, and a little badj binee we put this new hat on .
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 422, 23 November 1889, Page 8
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210OLD TIMES AND NKW. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 422, 23 November 1889, Page 8
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