CUT 'EM DOWN.
When dad has worn his trousors out They pass to biolhei John ; Then mother turns them lound about, And William puts them on. When William' 1 - legs too long ha\e <no\m The trouseis doesn't hide 'em, So Waltoi claims 'em for his own, And hides himself insirie 'em. Next, yam's fat leg-, they close invest, And, when they won't sketch tighter, They'ie turned and shoitenecl up tor me— Yoiu lonely little writer. Ma works 'em into nigs and eap 1 ; When I have buist the stitches ; At doomsday I shall perhaps The last of dad's old bieeehes. E. N. Waiinale.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 106, 8 February 1900, Page 3
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103CUT 'EM DOWN. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 106, 8 February 1900, Page 3
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