NAPIER NOBS.

NZ Truth, Issue 60, 18 August 1906, Page 5

NAPIER NOBS.

("Stamps"). This gentleman, never goes m ion a» lark,. ■■■.••.■■'■ . Or joins 'racing folk m their rampsHe's content at his duty; from daylight till dark, {To study, the system of stamps,,

(Merchant and cettery). A 7 /busy man is Vigotr Brown; When he bikes round the business town His coat tails spread upon the breeze, Each time he bends his vigor-ous knees.

A: hearty fellow arid a "brave, In war he took his part. He stands the first his life to save When shot clean through the hearth It pleases "Truth" to gently mention For that he's long enjoyed a pension.

A; veteran lightning jerker and a light-ning-flashing -worker ; He'd set the wires jigging and he'd "set 'em up" between. But one wire he tried to send cost him every finger end, When he tried to sound a call on a sausage machine. And still, while at his weary work he lingers, He wonders who the "sausage" was who scofied his vanished fingers.