THE LADY AND THE BULIOCKDRIVER.

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 37, 3 October 1896, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE LADY AND THE BULIOCKDRIVER.

A SoUTitr.nN contemporary is publishing many of the songs written by the "' inimitable Thatcher," when touring the colony away back (i in the sixties." We quote a verso of one of the bent. The .song tells bow a firunttcr from ;ip Queens town way camo to town and married a Duncdin yirl at St. Paul's. When the time eanie for them to go to the station, the squatter promised his bullock driver, who was: fo to act as charioteer to (be Lrido, a five rif he did not .swear at the bullocks, and the sack if be did. The bullock puncher got on all right for two or tl.reo days, but at last they got stuck in a creek, and do what he could the driver could not get his bullocks to It ml the waggon out The poor bullock driver looked Mucin fact ho was alnnst despaiinug; lie knew that fair words wouldn't do, l«'ur bullocks woa't move without swearin k ; No ho iay, to lb.; lady behind (Alas ! his request was unholy), •' I say. mum, wil' you be so kind As to 'low mo lodanui that 'ercpo'.ey:" The pleasure of doing goo 1 is the only one that does not wear out. Nickel bits repaired, also new rings fitted, by 11. 11. Howden, jeweller, ite., Hamilton. The oldest national Hag in the world is that of Deninuk, which lias been in use since the year I'JOII. l''or printing of every description try Tiik W.mk'ato Antu's Ollicc, Hamilton. Kirst class work ; moderate prices ; satisfaction guaranteed.