A RHYME OF THE TIME.
Mias Pallas Euclora Von Blurky, She didn't know chicken from turkey, High Spanish, and Greek she coulJ fluently - sjjeak, ,!»:. But her knowledge of poultry was murkey. She could ,tell the great uncle of Moseß, And the dnys of the Wars of tlie Roses. A~hd the^veasons of things— why the Indians wore rings In their rod aboriginal noses j "Why Shakespeare was -wrong m his grammar, ■'" And the meaning of Emerson's " Brahma," And she went chipping rocks with a little black box .: ;,:■':'■ And a Btuall geological hammer ! She had views i.'apon co-education, . And the pyiucipai aieads of the nation, Aud lier glasses were blue, and ; the numbers Bhe knew. Of the stursiu 'the high constellation. Bnd she wrote m a haridwrUnfg clerky, 1 And she talked with nil emph wjs jerky, And she painted on tiles m the sweetest.: - o f rtvle* ','"'■' ' But she didn't know chicken from turkey !
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 108, 17 January 1880, Page 4
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153A RHYME OF THE TIME. Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 108, 17 January 1880, Page 4
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