THE SORRY UN'S REFRAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume xxx, Issue 2430, 7 February 1888, Page 2

THE SORRY UN'S REFRAIN.

Said an old battered log, with a head like a dog, " Come spin a yarn with me, For I love a taie makes folks grow pale, About reptiles up from the sea ; About creatures just like me. J (Sotto voice): "Yet never a tale had he.'' " I have been fast, for a long time past, A water-worn old troe. Yet those who wrote me into note Are faster far than trie. I've 110'er had a drink, save printer's ink, As black as black can be. And yet I think that a whiskey drink Has had something to do with me. All salt must fail, for I have 110 tail, And cannot captured be, For this saurian, he is a wary un, And his tail is a ale of the sea. I'll take my flight to Pirongia's height, Leave the earth and climb a tree, Gaze on those banks, where dwell the cranks Who have made so much of me. (Oh no!) Gaze on those banks where I played such pranks, On my journey to the sea. (Uofrain): For he is not a soa bubble, Nor yet a see-double, liut iust a water-worn tree. W. S. EUeislie, .February ord, IfWS. The Waikato County Council advertise for tenders for a variety of road works. Notices of the licensing elections in the Waitoa and Raglan districts appear elsewhere. By notification from the Waikato County j Council a road in the parish of Taupiri ceases to be a highway. 1