JIM BOWKER.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 105, 6 February 1900, Page 4

JIM BOWKER.

Jim Bowker, he said of he'd had * fiu^H An' a big enough town for his talents t^H An* the least bit of assistance in hoein' hij^H row, Jim Bowker, he said ,^B He'd fill the world fall of the sormd ofhjJß name, :^fl An' climb the top round in the ladder o^H fame. .^1 It may haf c been so :- .^H I dunno ; Jast so it might hare been ; : '^H Then agin ,;^H But he had tarnal luck ; everything wea^H ag'm him' ; ;^H The airers of fortule they all us 'ud pi^H him ; So he didn't get a chance to show wbtj^H i was in him ; i '^| Jim Bowker, he said Ef he'd had a lair show you couldn't te]^| where he'd como, An' the feats he'd 'a' done, an' thehaighi^H he'd 'a' dumb. l^M It may have been so ; I dunno ; Jo-,1 »o it Eaight been ; Tbeu'ag'ia [^M But we're all like Jim Bowker, thinks !^| more o v less — Charge £ate for oar bad luck, ourselves fa^J success, >^M An' give foitune the blame for all oiJB distress. BH As Jim Bowker, he said, ..^B Ef it ha.dn't been for luck an' misforturi^B an' sieh, He might 'a' been famous an' might 'i^| been rich. - It might be jest so ; H I dunno ; H Jest so it migbt been ; H Then ng'io— - — H — S» W. F<wb, in Clereland leader. H