DON’T STOP MY PAPER.
j Don’t stop my paper, printer ; ■ ! Don’t strike my namooffyot.' i Yon know the times are stringent. ! Andjdollars hqrd.to gat * But .tugajittle harder, ; , } Is what I moan to do, ; And scrape the dimes together— . j Enough for me and you. ' I ... i.. i, • • -1 .. 1 > ■ , . ■ j I can’t affprd to drop it; i J ' I tind.it'doesn’t pay / i To do witbout a papdi*, ■ 1 j ' However others'may; • s ■ I hate to ask lay neighbors ■ i \ To givem’e theirs on loan ; ■ They den’t |uat Boy,(bdt Bqean itT- ; . “ Why don.’t you.havoyonc own I,’’ ; , Yon can’t tell how we miss it, .! ! ' 1 -If it,’by any fate, i Should happen not fco reach.us, * .. . Or come a settle late.; i Then all is in a hubbub,; And things ge all awry,. And—printer, if yoo’re married, You’ll knbW the reas.on 'Why I The childrep want their stories, And wife is anxious, fpb, ; , At first to glance it'oyer, And then to read h through, Aud I to read the locals : And con the book reviews, And.scm the correspondence And every bit jof new?,; I camjotdo without it | It is no use to try ; i - ■ Tbe other people, take it, , ■ And, printer, so must I. I, too, mast keep, poatedj And know what’s going on. Or feel,' and he aocoontecl, A foggy simpleton.' Then, take il kindly, pjripter, , If pay is Bpmawihal slovyj For cash is ( not so plenty,' And. watts tidt few, ymi .know ; But Im'lst have the paper,' ' Cost what it aaay to .Vie ; I’d .ratliefideck myjsugar, «i And do w|t(iputiroy tea. So, printer, dOh’typa stopjt, • Unless you want, my! frown, For hare's .thp year’s subscription, -i An^.credit, it right dew.n ,;. And send the paper promptly. . And regularly on, And let it bring me surely, . Its welcome benison.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1948, 26 September 1889, Page 1
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296DON’T STOP MY PAPER. Temuka Leader, Issue 1948, 26 September 1889, Page 1
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