House-Cleaning.
Sing a song of cleaning house, Pocketful of nail*: Bour-and-twenty dustpans, Scrubbing-brooms and pails. When the door is opened, Wife begins to sing : Jußt help me move this wardrobe hero, And hang this picture, won’t you dear ? And tack the carpet by tbe door, And stretch this one a little more, And drive this nail and screw this screw ; And here’s a job I have Co; you— The cupboard door will never catch I think you’ll have to fix tbo latch : And oh, while you are about it, John I wish you’d put tbe cornice on. And bang this curtain ; when you’re done pH hand you up the other one ; This box has got to have a hinge Before I can put on the fringe : And won’t you mend that broken chair ? I’d like a book put right up there ; The wardrobe door must have a kuob ; And hero’s another little job— I -really bate to ask you, dear, But could you fix a bracket boro ?' And on it goes, when these are through, And tbiß and that and those to do, Ad infinitum, and more too, All in a merry jingle. And isn’t that enough to make A man wish he were single? (Almost.) —New Moon.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 915, 13 September 1889, Page 4
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