GOOD-BYE SWEET PETS, GOOD-BYE!
\Y"f take the following amusing copy of verses iiml remarks from that clever weekly serial, Juiler/ainmenl, the fourthnumber ot which is now before us GOOD-BY.E SWEET 3'KTS. r-U sum to the I'ublic by the Chief of de Xigger L * Minstrels.] My fond hopes fade, liiv heart is breaking, The tear drops pearl my handkerehiel, To think of my pets Ju-eneh-leavo taking, Ami bolting alter trust so briel. To think, too, tlmt thuy eould liuve lieu (3ly feelings this doth mostly try) VrJin my own island, nor have said— " Oood-bve, old friend, good-bye! loud sniffs, and a plentiful use of llie liand[S ' ken'hief, with spasms of the shoulders.] To think my theories so soaring, made mc crow like Oliuiiticlccij Should suddenly receive this flooring— To strangers it. must look eo (i ueer I
It looks lis if in my own way I managed it upon the sly'. Well p'raps, ...» hut still I beg to say— Good-bve, sweet pets, good-bye ! [* Here is iv slight interludes of winking.] At tho conclusion, tho acting of agony of mind by tliis really wonderful performer was a most harrowing spectacle, mid several old ladies present required a severe application of gin before they could so far recover their equanimity us to pass the wink round to their neighbours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 274, 28 September 1864, Page 5
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