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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3987, 8 October 1881, Page 1

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, . '..' •. - She. „ „ . ;.' .' " You're no idea, dear John, how cheap : I bought this ham to-day, And bread is down again, my love, I'm very glad to gay.

That French merino I've secured, You liked the colour so; .1 borrowed money from Aunt Janf, I to much feared t'would go.

And so it would have done had I But been another hour, At least the shopman told me so, Why do you look so tour?

Thanks to America and France, Our food, and clothes, and wine, Are coating such • trifle bow, V\ c can both dress and dine.

And other countries help ua too, How pleased our bonnie boys Were with that box of plaything you Procured them—German toys.

I'm sure our happy lot is cast In pleasantest of times, Yet sulkiness sits on you, sir, You don't admire my rhymes. He. I grant that Yankee beef is cheap, And so is Yankee wheat; I know a claret cup is cool In stifling summer heat. I like to see my children play With toys of modest pi ice Yet foreign notions bring about A state of things not nice.

For imlance, Mary, I have been Ten years with Green and Co. ; Who sent for me this morning, dear, And told me I must go.

For foreign prices had quite smashed All commerce over hrre; N6w, Mary, tell me, don't you think Your bargains rather dear ? —Paui Pby, in Pact.