NEWSPAPER WAR.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 27 June 1868, Page 3

NEWSPAPER WAR.

. rBTSAM JOIJHB. "We've all been told How in days of old _ • THe wdrld^was" fitted with *he brave and.the bold, Who cared not for heat and who caied not for •old. . ! VRs said they were men of a very tough mould, ''Who needed nokco'infort, WhoieSded not gold, Who co&d- not be bouglit,-nor who could not be sold ; .. If oy .hither, bow -thither, they rollicked, they rolled. jz.'< . . .With' bounce and noise' :1^ •••> ■. Each hero employs Himself kissing tne^girls and milling the boys. Each noble knight, „, Was a gallant, sight, .. _, - . Jf we can believe half that old duffers write ; ' Their steeds were all sleek and their armours ;T. all bright ♦ Their brows all drawn down and their mouths screwed up- tight : _ : Putting every male mortal half dead with i-, , affright, - , ■ And all female hearts in a very sad plight. 'Tvas a.siglit to see J But diggers like me Would fail to imagine how grand it would be. "'*'■■ Then tn'e' tournament ring, • "Winch the troubadours sing, Where Cupid went flitting about on the wing, Now here and now.jthere, like a swallow inspring. Knighis, turkey-cock-like, strutting out," strut- , . tin-f .in j And when mounted and harnessed the sport did begin ; Jike bulls in a pasture each couple went in, And gored, hackedj and hewed, ladies' favors to win. ■ " Nought in earth or air ; Could at pnee compare • , With the fighting of knights in the sight of the fair. But that rascal/time Does take out the shine Of many a thing very gallant and fine. The knigjhts and the ladies all quietly recline, AU'mouldered to dust, as your body and mine Stand a chance to be in a very short time ; Though we still go in, in the tournament line. Our champions are Less bounceable far : They only go in for a newspaper war, Men now you see .**s losydegree, Witb^arsons and priests all in a melee ; And ministers trying to kick up a spree— - Worry and bustle and never agree ; They're fond of a spar "Which leaves hurt nor scar, go they have a go in at a newspaper war. Ifate. -I have tried to say my say in * verse ; - but as I find it -a, dim way of ponveying a meaning, I may explain although these worthy old firebrands — "knights of the Don Quixote breed — and pthers less rashly valorous, sleep with their fathers, there is still as much of the "good ojd fighting. leven in the world as ever ;r; r and' that in the correspondence columns of a newspaper there are some very, pretty fights. We have, all often seen pen-tMven into an enemy as remorsely and as deep as ever Bayard did his lance.