AN APPLE JOKE,

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 433, 17 December 1861, Page 4

AN APPLE JOKE,

IFurub'y ihicrihfd to the IlonomUc tho SjrtiJccrofihe Assembly of liepretenlutircn. AY«% Zealand, ,\c, <\c., in adiwratfait of his remarkable virtue and add'rets. "Pis vulgar and wicked to joke, And by apples ihe temuted provoke; For apples, you know, it" net iipe, Foiiic delicate- stmnadis will gripe ! The children o! Adam and Kvu f>!ii:!i y'.i'ssy temptations shou d leave (tin- Johnny was po'.xl, and look care Oi'Midi pret'y fruit lo beware ; I Hit Alfred was naughty, and came The doai1 liuie pa'iorn lo biaiue. II is said, over-gio'.vi), diity boys, Who coveted jobbery's joys, OiK-c joiiied in a mi.sdiicvou-; job, Ami \eiituied an ( rdiuid to rob. Kadi loi'^'.hl to climb up for a prize Full mellow of plcasantebt a'a^ ; 'I h.-.'ir teeth, liow they wat- red ! and then They tasted'again mid again ; And lipH with .such rapture they smacked, That .Johnny, so very exact, \V,-.s puzzled, and wondered how lie Mi^hi eat, yet, an hone.-t boy be? His mates al( bin case undeistood, Amu jii'oved how (heir plunder was good. lint JoiUiiiy to f'oliv was p'o.C, And oii.Ly I'.Kiked en—all aioof. If a pippin they placed i:i bis fob— lie never tc<>k part in tin1 job. ].!ut Allied wovild pla.mie lii.n, and say 'J'niit ' lie was as faulty as they !' T.'icu tlie nice feeling creature •-voulcl ciy, And ' H.^li ' on the leaser his eye. And lwluH, who did for the sdiools, S.;id Alfred had ' biokcu the rules;' For neither 'an ox' uw an ' asi' Was pilfered by .lohn, or his class! This liulus, a Crammer most sly, O:t fingered the schools' apple-pie.. He Mattered each dunce, in such guise, With strictest and lifted—up eyes, That truants soon learnt to declare How dirt, was respectably fair ! Ho all, in propriety str>:ug, Grew lfftined in rijjit -and in wrong ! Still Alfred of jobbery joked ; lint Johnny by apples uneheked, An i>ppici>lj section g at limes Ju-.: Mieked ; and jjrotesting from crimes, rmind to conv:nee ili the folk, U'--w ii'juied lie; was by a joke,! Now, little ones all, of each sex, ]j'/iw;re lest cadi oilier you. vex, ].!■>!, talking of apples in j<;-f, "i 'Mi consi'ienees tender molest! And. when vim are ti-mjacd, like Joliii, — At h very safe di.-fc.inee look on. So then, if ti nice golden pip I'.y ehiii,ce lo yuiir |.o:'U'.;i .••hou'd .-lip, jNo speetro will lu-U:it you to s.iv, 'J uv.saughl, but ill- f.iircst of piay ! ?.!OI!AL. Tiiere's noliiiiig in an apple evil .If yon can take one—and lie civil, Still, ie.-i» i.'iabie, iii.d sly, And ilaj-h on iraunder.'e.-i your eye, \\ ben they, or common lioliiiiMins, Hint of your sius in public tones! § What section V U BIT IT.