SELECT POETRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 190, 28 September 1871, Page 7

SELECT POETRY.

RUSTIC COURTSHIP.

(From Sketches from Humble Life, in the . "Lady's Own- Paper.") Oh J 'yes'-m tell you the story, .. The very word 3 that were said. To* see the sapper vas cooking, And I was slicing some bread, And Richard came into tho kitchen, Hi 3 face' was exceedingly ted. And he opened his half-shut fingers, And gave me a glimpse Cf ar ring ; Andjthen— oh ! yes, I remember, Th*e fcettle began to sing, And Fanny camo'jn with her baby, Tho cunniugest bunch of a thing.

The biscuits were out in a minuteWell, what came next ? Let me see— Oh ! Fanny was there with her baby, And we all sat down to tea-; And grandma looked over her glasses So queer at Richard and me, But it wasn't till after the milking That he said what he had to s»y. Bow was it ? Oh ! Fanny had taken The baby, and gone aw«y — The fuuniett rogue of a fellow— - He had a now tooth that day. • We were standing under the plum-tree, And Richard said something low. But I wii9 tired and fluttered, And trembled, I almost know ; For old Red is the hardest of milkers, And Brindle so horribly slow. And then — let me see— where was I ? Oh ! the stars grew thick overhead, And we two stood under the plum-tree Till the chickens flew up to bed. Well, he loves me, and we'er to be married, And that is - about what he said. H. L- Bostwick.