HUMOROUS COLUMN.
■A Fifth of November Gasabianca,
The boy stood! On the backyard fences whence all but he had fled; - The flames that lit bn his father’S’bara Shone just above the shed. 'One bun’fih bf crackers in his hand, two others in his hat, ’With piteous Accents, load he'•cried : “ In ever thought of tha t. 1 ’ A bunch'of crackers to tta> tail of onb small dog he'd tied; The dog in anguish Sought the barn, and ’mid the ruins died. The sparks flew wide and red and hot, they lit upon the brat, They fired the crackers in his hand and those within his hat. Then Came a burst of rattling sound-*-the boy—-Where was he gode ? . »Ask of the winds that far around strewed bits of meat and-bone, And scraps f of clothes and balls and tops and nails and hooks and yarn, The relics of the dteadlhlboy that burned his father’s "barn J X .
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 169, 29 June 1901, Page 3
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155HUMOROUS COLUMN. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 169, 29 June 1901, Page 3
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