SELECT POETRY.
A $£D STORY. Among a savage clan Of cannibaUsh people, ' A missionary man Set up his modest stepple. And there each day he would Pursue his noble labours, He told them to be good, And "bade them, to love their neighbours. The canniteala, vitli grins, Gave ears to t&'eme he treated. *They crossed their liawny skins, And on their hams were seated. " And yet they were not lost, ' That missionary's labours j - Ho taught them to his cost The way to lore their neighbours, For one day, when for prayers Those cannibals they met him, They caught him xraa-waxes — They killed him and they ate him \ They said they found him good— He'd practiced what he taught them— And now they understood The goodness he had brought them. And when they'd filled each maw^ They said while they deplored him, " They'd love him — live and rawBut roasted, they adored him !" — London "Pun."
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 198, 16 November 1871, Page 7
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154SELECT POETRY. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 198, 16 November 1871, Page 7
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