THE MINSTREL. BATTEN AGAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 664, 22 August 1876, Page 3

THE MINSTREL. BATTEN AGAIN.

COMPOSED IN MJUSIPABHUN ot OUB DtFAITK. 0.-h! Gordie, my je-vei, "ti» rail!/ 100 cruel That wo should be baifce by lint dirty spalpeen, Sure lii*'s a pritindlier, on' vru'ro our d.tiid<T, A (iMhroit thrue, fuix re i\er have bren ; WM ardour nnquinchiii,' und co uage unflmchm', Yecaniclo the front «h»n thecounthry had linn In -Jeep destitution, to reek rotHbution, B»t G-ordie, ye liivu, wero bufcen aguiu. I don't like the blonii' ay Button and Bo wen, An 1 Wi.i'akcr let the cutout o* theba-r, The Vugclite faction have rneered at our "ction, A^e'ro laug'>el at, beiidcs, bj aitch Qorei nni'iit rag : To split up the nation, »e\e broached Sijieration, Our folmme looked quite fiiiinble, purty an' plain, Wo trery oiuacle an' wiut to the 1u»lr — B-.it rttordi.', je dinl, we're boitcn •gain. Whi»<t talkin' wid Bobby, ju»tout in tl»e l.bb». Now, who shsuld come in, but the Go vernment. whip, That cnnn.ug ould codger, an' Lew«paper dodgpr, 8e», ' Pad ly, me darlint, '«^is time for • flip.' I couldn't, refme him.solmd t->excuBuhim, To Bellamy* tap thin we whit fcr a dhi'uin, \n' Vit.cent so dhryly thin whinpered 10 •Faix, Paddy, yer paity is baiten »g. iv.' Our ITod^y'a a poet, tho Vogelitea know it, They thrimbleJ before hii attack in the fray, They'd changed our pavilions to ' thirtyuino iktlhoni,' Naw, railly, that is a poetioidiiy, '.) Though Beis loudly hat spoken, our phalanx it broken, An' Nemesis Ue«lop bat tundhered in ▼am. Hit ptand declamation- wont win Siperarion — Och ! Geordie, yo divil, wero baiten a<iain. Sure Jimmy Mao Andy wid blarney is Imndy, 'Tit he that knows how to btmboozle the mob, An' Donald, tho farmer, b»i girt on hit armour, And Cnverfham Satan is wid us, be gob, This rnme ar log-rollin' it mighty ontolin,' We're uiarthyrt bound up in a Cinthralist chain, 'Twat all our ambition to crush Abolition, But Geordie, ye dinl. we're baiten »R»'n. Vadvy Mijrpby. L»mbton Knf, August 7th, 1876.