A BOY'S ESSAY ON BURDS.'
Burds is alwaz hapy. A man kin go erlong an' heer a burd sing an' be hapy to unless wen he gits home he has got to eet cold pertaters fer dinner. Men what eets cold pertaters kant be hapy. If burds had ter eet cold pertaters thay koden't be hapy ethar. Lots of potry has ben writ erbout burds, but ther'er as hapy as they kin be, jest the sam.
Gurls like burds, but burds doan't seem to kare ennything speshul erbout gurls. Burds has lots er cense som waz. Burds kin eet green appols without gittin' sick. It would be nice to be er burd som timz.
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New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 16
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114A BOY'S ESSAY ON BURDS.' New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 16
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