PETER THE POET.

Temuka Leader, Issue 312, 2 November 1880, Page 2

PETER THE POET.

Peter, the poet, was found asleep in a stone-cutter's yard. Indeed, he was reposing in the shade of a head-stone on which "Sacred to the memory" had already been carved. It was a mild drunk. He was loaded into a waggon and drawn down without disturbing his dreams, and not a word was heard from him all night. When daylight came he borrowed a pencil and began writing a poem, and at eight o'clock he had finished sixty-seven versus. He had it in his hand as h' 4 came out, and when his Honor stated ihe charge the prisoner read .- There was a young man named Peter ; His mother he went out to meet 'er, But he took with a chill, and fell very And therefore he didn't quite greet 'er "Do you plead guilty or not guilty V asked the court. For answer the prisoner read the second verse : "And Peter he made such a winking, The coppers thought he had been drinking, And they gave him the lock with many a knock, But were sadly mistaken, I'm thinking." "Is that your peotry?'' asked ihe court. "Yes, sir, every word of it," was the j proud reply. " Then you go up for thirty days." "All right, sir," replied Peter, and he turned to the last verse and read. " And Peter, alas ! though so gifted, For a long thirty days he was lifted, i 'Cause his Honor felt sure his case it would cure, i When the evidence came to bo sifted."