ON THE WRONG TACK.
With her thumb on a black-headed tack. With hammer upraised in her hand. Taking aim to obtain a good whack, A woman sits smiling and bland; A woman sits smiling and bland, Sits on the half-carpeted floor, While tacks lie like shellaon the strand, Unnumbered and thirsty for gore,
With yells that might make negros pale, With aleapwhieha goatcan't surpass, Willi a mangled and bleeding thumb[nail,
She falls in a chair, a limp ma^s; She falls in the chair, a limp mass,
And groans till the pain flees away— A beautiful emblem, alay !
Of energy sadly astray,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2343, 10 July 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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101ON THE WRONG TACK. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2343, 10 July 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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