A Pathetic Faredy .
Pay ! Pay ! ! Pay ! ! !-— A contemporary is responsible for the latest and moot pathetic parody on Kipling's famous poem Tb>; poetry (?)is tearful and wourtdiful, bat cbe solid bensc contained is undoubted :- Wheu you've sold youi vrJiear and buttPi When you've sont t ioui milk to town, Wuen you'\e got youi cheque foi bacon, e^gs or hay. Will you kmdly cast youi optic on our little pnntu's hdl, And settle it at one- 1 without delay ? You'ie an absent minded be^a, 1 , And we aie leallv tiled of having to so fioquently leniind yoi 1 , You come into the township ou every maiket day And always leave this unpaid bill behind you. Cook's son, squattei's so.n. sou of a cockatoo — Twice five huudred httlo accouuts unpaid on our books to-day. Every one could be settled at once if you would only try. Feel in youi pocket for Heaven's sake, and pay ! pay ! ! pay ! ! '
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 2, 5 June 1900, Page 3
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155A Pathetic Faredy. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 2, 5 June 1900, Page 3
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