WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XVII, Issue 992, 14 May 1862, Page 2

WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

A LETTER TROM JONATHAN MUCSGB AT THE MANOR HOUSE TO HIS MASTER IN TOWN. , (' Liverpool Chronicle.') Honoured Sir, I have written to say, The poachers have taken your game; The greyhound has worried your rabbits— Your favourite hunter is lame— Your neighbour has entered an action— The bull-dog has bit his pigs-ear— My duty, to you and the Missus— And I wisli you a happy New Year! I planted the bulbs that you sent us; They were putting up beautiful shoots— But the sow got into the garden— And rummaged them up by the roots. The cider we made is all spoilt—?. There's a singular taste in the beer; We found we had mashed up a puppy— But I wish you a happy New Year! Lord Beagle has left you his card: He was here with the huut and the hounds; They came at a fine slapping pace, But they've terribly cut up the grounds. It seems that they met with a check, The hothouse had sheltered the deer: Its broken the plants and the glass, But I wish you a happy New Year! The hay wasn't sold at the market, 'Cause somebody fired the stack. Old Cheatem's estate's very bad, • And your bill upon Buckley's come back— I don't think you'll ever get sixpence, I find that he's much in arrear; The man you were bound for has bolted— I wish you a happy New Year! My duty to Missus, and tell her, The parrot walk'd out of her cage, By some means laid hold of her album, And pick'd into bits every page. Her nephew has got into a scrape, And hopes you'll at once interfere; Ten sovereigns the barmaid is axing: But I wish you a happy New Year! I trust Missus finds herself better, Of her terrible winter complaint, (The damp has got into the study And spoil'd a great deal of the paint). I'm sorry to hear your attack Of the gout has been very severe. Mr. Thompson has sunk under his; But I wish you a happy New Year! On the opposite side of the river, Just facing the drawing-room door, They're beginning to build up a soap'ry— (The rot's in the summer-house floor). The floods have much damaged the piles; The bricks one by one disappear; The carpenter's sent in his bill: But I wish you a happy New Year! I sent by the coach up a basket; Two turkeys, two pheasants, a goose; They all got so crush'd by'the luggage; They really don't seem fit for use— The guard brought them back in a flurry, And said he was flummoxed with fear; 'Twas all through the man at the office; But I wish you a happy New Year! The servants desire me to give you And Missus their dutiful word, And hope you will not be down-hearted At all the mishaps that's occurred; For you are an excellent master, And one that we all must revere— We'd a chimney on fire last night— But I wish you a happy New Year! P.S.—l've had your addresses all posted; They look very well on the wall! But another candidate's started— They say that you've no chance at all. I'm sorry to add that the thieves Last night came visiting here— The only thing taken's the plate; But 1 wish you a happy New Year!