THE RANDOM SHOT.
1 shot an arrow into the air It fell in the distance, I knew not where, Till a neighbour said that it killed his calf And I had to pay him 6 and • I bought some poison to slay some And a neighbour swore it killed his And rather than argue across the fence. I paid his four dollars and com*. One night 1 set sailing a toy balloon, i And hoped it would soar till it reached the moon. But the candle fell on a iaimer e» straw . And he said I must settle or go Io law. And that is the way with the random shot— It never hits in the proper spot. And the joke you sprung, that, yon think sofmart. May leave atv .mi nd in some fellow s -Hamlinc Oracle.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 11, 24 December 1925, Page 11
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138THE RANDOM SHOT. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 11, 24 December 1925, Page 11
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