THE BATTLE OF PARIHAKA.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4058, 31 December 1881, Page 2

THE BATTLE OF PARIHAKA.

The following clever parody is from the pen of Frank Fudge, whose jesting rhymes. * on the proceedings at Parihaka; published from time to • time, contain, some of the most amusing things he has erer writ* ten:—: . ■ • ;■;_:;■: Not a dram was heard, not a bugler's, note,,. y As our troops to the ramparts we hurried: And only one riflemen let off a shot, ' s He got so confoundedly flurried. 'Twas accident merely; some said be was tight, His togs caught the trigger while turning To borrow a chew from,the. man on his right; With ardour each soldier was burning. Te Whiti and Tohu were taking"* rest, ; Their wires and their people.around 'em,, < We brought the old warriors cut of their nest, ■ Then collar'd Hirokijand botmd him.- -„-... Few and short were the words they laid, The looked not in anger, but sorrow, They steadfastly gazed on us, shaking each . head, • . " ";.:.•.:' As they bitterly thought of the morrow. And then when our heavy task,was done, Jark Bryce gave the word for retiring, And flushed with success at the battle we'd won;' ' -" "ir.'~,', Each other kept on admiring. ... , „ Slowly but surely our Gten'ral go down, ' From Ivs charger all white, famed in story i , And telegrams flashed to each city'and town' The news' of J»ok Bryce and his glory;"'