COURRENT VERSE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 49, 26 February 1916, Page 13

COURRENT VERSE.

"...■^(■-"A^SinfPOIiKJMOTHER. """' , j ine wboily laughj, et;dp,. ; thet on'y "'t'otUerclar. '."■.. .'• . " ' . '. . FolV'-uster-tlilnk'my Soys 'Wiiz trash', "Bin -.1 brpustttiup^baa', , .''.thej'd* say,- .' '••• Jest 'cos -th' latts\wi(2-tarelees;like.ant jriglit <}bvvn fpnd-6'"fun, . A-stainpJQ?:/on ~tX: jSfeuds "o* ' Ule an' ■ ■ ■ ■. ' '■'. But'noWithey'.Te.'gdnfe'a'spjerin',; uz v they'd ... ; a.-ca.Uft'.. do,', "}■'■•■■•'■??-■* ■'■' • . ■■ Etjs,'. .'"RecEo'n * O'd' -fie pea'cock-prond'' o' tlieni'er'l. w\jz"joa." -",, _ " Th'-parson ,often; wffgged a..warnln' flnger . 'in my. face... .'•' ~ • - ..■ -• . An' biuted'tliej-'wuz"brlngitt'.aU tfpafish '""T -disgrace;' ■?' ,-v ~"'"'.; v ' ."'' •He.!d*:'blQw wl , a . ; aolemn -sort.'o , '.■; ■. : . la. propnesyju' wlien them lads wuz ■ -bro\ight.'t'book; v V '": --■■■■ ■But now Jim's igit "'For Vilonr," parson's •: ' somehp.w cliabged'his cord; Et:S, !'Allus thqughtrtheyM-turn them big, brave sons,o' youin.'. . They waz "Rascals-:flt£for.hanging , ,"; an' a ■ l°t o". otber -things- ". •„ .. When th' squire got-siUy notions "boat his ratrbits takin' wipss,' ' An , I wuz "wuss than they, heaps," as I - wentured t! ■ reSnark. '.- ... ■ That ,", 'haps twuzr .on'y glow-worms they wuz.'arter .in But now they've sp'ne .f Flanders Vi> their . • pay'hets-an' their , gnns, :■ J Ets .'ißriu:n's.-can:t- boast hetter chaps .than your.three sons."'. • X - ; * l got*'h ,Ut ri ,I n.t" ,1 ri ° * lrS aS Orish °' d 1 eels iike 6om ° •Cps them, three, -lads—••bin brought up bad , :—are' fust-class men t'davThey, may be heroes an' the rest, u'z'they're ..j ■- rapscallions, "haps, f mc! ■• -