MORUER IN-LAW.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 423, 27 November 1889, Page 8

MORUER IN -LAW.

Il> «|pnd nn his lie id l>\ the wild sen-shoie, And d-meed nn i-is li.mil>* n ji'4 ', Jn fill hi-- iMnnlinus ms u i ver before, A wihilv lj'tjiii.iu^ jit;. And why? In that ship just uossing tlr> b«v, His mothoi-in-law had mailed F >r -i tr<'pif!il country far .iwny, Whoiv tiupis and feveis picv.iilcii. (>li,uow 'te inW-lit liopo for a pc iceful life, And even bo liappy yci, Thi->uah owinaf no ond i>f neuralgic wife, Ainl up to hi< t-01l .r in dcbl. He h.id borne tl.o old 1 idy through thick ;-nd Il.in, And t-lie loctnrpil him out of breith ; And row, he !o< k >d :i( the ship w.is in, And liow'cd forhor violent donth. lie w.-itched ;.s the good ship cut the sen, And bnnipisli'y uped ;ind ('owned, And thought it' nhcady she qu.dinishmiijht I>U, He'd consider hi-- happiness ci owned. Jle watched till beneath (he hori'/on'scd^e. The ship was passing fiom % iew ; And he spriin^ to the top of a l jcky ledge, And pi .meed like a knn^aioo. He w.ituhed '.ill the vessel bec;nno a speck That was lost in the wiindeiini^ c c.i, And then, a*- theii-k of bi taking his neck Tinned som< ivanltshome to te.i, ;