A NEW POEM.
There is in the following brief poem a charming picture of domestic life, heightened >>y an allusion to a well-known incident in the life of "Washington :— " Dear father, look up, Eestrain the hiccup, And tell me what aileth ma's forehead. It's all black and blue ; Oh.-! what could she do To cause a contusion so horrid ?" " Your mother, Jane Aun, A newspaper man Admired, till I warned her she'd catch it. Like Washington, I
I Cannot tell a lie — I did it with my little hatchet ! "
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 194, 26 October 1871, Page 7
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89A NEW POEM. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 194, 26 October 1871, Page 7
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