RHYMES FOR THE TIMES.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 142, 2 June 1883, Page 163

RHYMES FOR THE TIMES.

Charley' Adams ,, wbo' "vamosed the Auckland lock-up last week, it' slid down the peach tree and 'over the,&ricWs'in!p|p; jYulcan lane, humming the yell-know^ditt^r^^l^ "If you tean't'get out at the golden'^tiei^"'* ,fl ' I . Get over the garden wall." '; '"' ~ : "A';=A'^vf,^.The acting lock-up keeper was not id\tjb*i7 imood, but if lie had been,(he had :his extensive repertoire in > "Still so gently o'er mdstealing," "« gone from my gaze," '{I j&w him for I think I see him noV' " Absence. mak&£ r tftsss; heart grow fonder," and " A policeman'rclpt not a happy one." the larrikins' h'eard;>of the excellent service rendered by the peachi; in the.Hegira of Adams, "Woodman," ssa,rp-i)itis!fs jtree " has become quite a popiilar.air with •' '•- ■■,' —— ' '■' +- : L__" "/'/■M'tfr.r^M^.

WHEN STSAyL THESE THBEE MEET A.(iAIN ; The. municipal, guardian of. thVpsac<& 19 charming marine suburb, not far frpm, was the victim of mis-placed confidence r day. He met a friend on the, him that he had seen a sight that morning like the white crane of Maori fable, was qncejn a lifetime.'. "What.is that ?,'V;^id; manjin blue, pricking up his ears at once., ■■; a.>dead donkey," was'the, reply. "X?V niean it," said the constable; "I hayenever, such a• .sight in my. lifetime." ",i44il right,'?V the civilian,," the donkey's up in 1 a paddock ;■ by ; let's go and See it." &§L#lgj started,\, and-:'.. sure enough Ihere lay thy affimal, and showing no evidence/of, lijre.' While. musing;tjj oyer the spectacleeawlu the moral lessons v derivable from, it,* the' constable inadverfcently (•' touched'the flank of the "dead" donkey vrith.hia'"//; boot-. .Jerusalem! the act see,med to galydnises J 1 ; the.brute into life.again; and the " mounted man "; ;V : was shot lip" into the air as if from a catapult. When he picked himself up, coming down, he i thought he hadbeen put-through a threshing ./ I machine., now says that ia futurphe/jwillaiist'-. jon the advice of Mark Twain-+" Appearance^ , ate/ ' deceptive. .Never trust to anything. \. ; I ; srou,ld/, think.twice before I would stand behind the |i of a dead donkey." The " mounted man "is, no W.,. , strictly reticent,when the. enquiry is made by (the ;.: jokers, " When shall you three meet again.?" | ; .'.r-- --■