OUR BIG DRUM.
.A BBCENT~BEVEHIB. "| Yes. For once I am disposed to be I critical and quarrelsome" lam usually one' 4| of her Majesty's most/peaceable Vubjjects,' ■$% and am an advocate/as I try to be an 1 ex- ;|| amplefbf harmony ; butjustnowrtir Spirit '-^1 there is nothing for lrhut lo let? it but. 31 Our town boastrb'fTr drum and fife band Si and *tb--4igSt WWam.iß Jsm ptffuuV '/fl reminded, said ba.od is engaged fl ir£lbrac- ll rising. * r ) J Bthe^feJrs>KhS.ve "nothing to say; ::'M Their strains are no' doubt sweet;' and en- ?W rapturiag/ b^t 'oWyihai^oecisioba^&rjueak M reaches my;€»p;^^tt|>hat which jiist now S * XC uf**® beybn4' alt M reasofeWenflhraH&? fPtU pefformance^m aMk<Sttl# citizen; w&Mfer he%ffi m bo the big dramT^ Music Hath eharmsto fl soothe the savage breast:"— yea bniw^n ;^ music a the,imbhotbhouw^toneßlf^fl a drum -S solo.it .i^ftuiteenougb/j^^ savage that ordinarily.,^layfliClaimiWffende'i « ness % Isitdownm^mWmW-d^m dum aum^ auffifdhfe>%reap up^myeaf'OT faridXEr close the pobk in -••: I^try^S^ fasten my thouilijta. upon V MbjeciitbafSS dalls for cl ss attention : or I nursne snm« 5 M ple&ing^an^pl-pfiwp'Wf^^ t»on|:^gain^l^a>-nrnibM myself exclaiming, " What ari uamiWtlaPS nuisance.^ *^oh7^ Wllo lejnf§?f a?! 8» W Cowper. I wonder if he lived wi.ttiin^Pa quarter-joMimie of a big'drum'T^f^6%;3 8 lo^ee. I shoula Uke tQltakef^J l ua ? &» if «#? % rici^pptbitlumiSl mer,i so tbat hfe mj|nt4flunif alvajpnisfij ? |M going for ypnrgbigM "
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 14, 8 October 1874, Page 5
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213OUR BIG DRUM. Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 14, 8 October 1874, Page 5
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