LINES PICKED UP IN SYDNEY.
THE AUSTRALIAN SITUATION, 1893 Wo’ve worked our mines ... On paper Bought railway lines On paper In fact we ve bought All we import ... ••• On paper Importers sell ... ••• ••• On paper And all do well On paper Shopkeepers buy And always try To make things high On paper We’ve brought our traps ... On paper Banknotes, perhaps ... ... But paper We count our chink, *W© write and think, We eat and drink On paper Our wives buy gowns ... ... On paper We build our towns On paper All wealth is made, All assets laid, All wages paid In paper We’re concert pitch ... ' ... On paper We’re beastly rich ... ... On paper We’re up to snuff, We’ve whips of .stuff And lots of bluff On paper Our banks —Great Scott! ... On paper What piles they’ve got ... On paper And e’en these few Poor lines, though true, Are sent to you On Paper.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1179, 5 October 1894, Page 36
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149LINES PICKED UP IN SYDNEY. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1179, 5 October 1894, Page 36
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