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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 197, 9 November 1871, Page 7

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THE SWEETS OF- MARRIED- LIFE.

'I wish 3 had a dozen pairs Of hands this very minute, I'd soon put all these things to rights— Ah 1 gladly would I prove it. Here's a big washing to be done, ; One pair of hands to do itSheets, shirts and stockings, coats and pantB — How urill I e'er gat through it ?

Dinner to get for six or more ; No loaf left o'er from Sunday j And baby cross as he can liveHe's always so on Monday.

And there's the ereain, 'tis getting sour, And must forthwith be churning ; And here's Bob wants a button on— Which way shall I be turning ?

Tis time the meat was in the pot, The bread was worked for baking ; .The clothes were taken froni the boil— Oh dear ! the baby's waking !

Oh dear ! if P comes home, And finds things in this bother, He'll just begin and tell me all About his tidy mother,

How nice her kitchen used to be, Her dinner always ready Exactly when, the dinner- bell rung — Hush hush, dear little Freddy ! And then will come some hasty word, Bight out before Fin thinking ; They say that hasty words from wives Set sober men to drinking.

Now, isn't that a great idea. — That men should take to sinning Because a weary, half-sick wife .Can't always smile so winning?

When I was young I used to earn My living without trouble ; Had clothes, and pocket-money too. And hours of leisure double.

I never dreamed of such a fate, When I, a lass 1 was courted : "Wife, mother, nurse, seamstress, cook, housekeeper, .chamber-maid, laundress, dairywouian, and scrub generally, doing the •work of six, For the sake of being supported. -•' Lady's Own Paper."