A VOICE FROM THE RANKS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 240, 5 September 1872, Page 9

A VOICE FROM THE RANKS.

/ Vt»re«o«termongen, I M* and Bill, my pfcidner. !*#», «M»Q«,»hor«eler; ' . » gwdner. g-imf* >fy|i*i fond o' natur, '^XtjbM » pair o* barren: "nNWDikm, be i*lb wegablei, -And I- Mill; larkt »nd sparrers. InPffeh ye goes a tradin* <)' Sundajrs, m the " Cutt;" Enjoyin v of ourselrei All in thfcpmd and dut. (Vich M vj, our ooan try's . _. Tryin' to uproot uk >- . ; i^omdn i t persecute vi.) It ain't because we like* ">' The tnud particlder much. -It's oaau we ain't got notoin' eke : - > To' do ithai we doet such. If we can't trade, what pleasure , ' Are we poor.^hirigs to get 'When every blessed pub (not ' To s»y hotel)' Usliet? „j't V.' -»1 •' ■■>>''< 1.1 ' •" .if-fTerythingiisshetup; And cesteruiongers too, I ask my country what » Me and BUl's to do? „ for we jdift eddicated, iAs bankers' clerks and sioh is; Nor bein! of that lot Vich God has blessed vith riches. I'm told that there's museums— Or something of the sort—' Built pdrpus^y that we May be amused and taught, give up Sunday tradin 1 dissatisfaction jMsVriy thing vich has But half as much attraction. 'Bill's greens 'ud' stand no chance Agin artistic treasures, And sparren wouldn't be nowheres aGin intellecshal pleasures. ,But they're locked up o' Sundays, For our country seems tho think 'As iptellecshal pleasures Is rather wus'an drink. Does QuYernment expect / We,oprstermongen may Edify oiirselyes " fighian' all the day? -The fact is, this here country's Much too intellecshall. And the means it takes to make us good Is, therefor, ineffecshall,