DARWINISM IN THE KITCHEN.
I was tnlrin' off my, bonnet ■One afternoon at- three., When a heni3eck jumped upon it, As proved to be a flea.
Then I takes it to the grato, BetvToon the bars to stick it; Bnt I hadn't long to wait Era it changed into a cricket. Saya Iy " Surely my somes Is get tin' in a fog." So to drovrnd it I commences, i When it alters to a frog. _ Here my heart began to thump, And no wonder I felt funky ; For th« frog, with one big jump ' Leaped hiese f into a monkey. Then I opened wide my eyes, ' His features for to scan, And observed with great surprise That the monkey was a man.
But he vanished from my sight, And I »ank wpon the floor, Just aa mis Hue, with a light, Came ineijle the kitchen door. Then beginning to abuse me, She saya, "Sarah you've beea drinking." I says, " No, mum, you'll exema me, But I've been a thinkin'.
" But, as sure a3 I'm a cinder, That party, what you eoe A gcttin' out o' windar, Have developed from a flea." —Exchange.
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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1790, 28 September 1874, Page 3
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192DARWINISM IN THE KITCHEN. Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1790, 28 September 1874, Page 3
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