MAINTRUNKY.

NZ Truth, Issue 80, 29 December 1906, Page 6

MAINTRUNKY.

■» ,- (A Church of England missionary, the Rev. Mr Weller, has been sent to minister to the spiritual needs of the navvies on the Main Trunk Railway.) The workers on the Main Trunk line, Providing the weather be nice and fine, Will now graft 0 n with might and main, Never be naughty, no, never again ; For they're ministered •to by a missioner feller, —Name df Weller. * No more will be heard the ribald oath, All hymn and prayer, a little of both, Pure water will take the place of beer, Unseen will be the drunken leer, For they're ministered to by a missioner feller, » —Name of Weller. And when •the weather is dreadfully wet, Down on their bended knees they'll get, Pray like blazes with might and main For the beautiful sun to shine again ; For they're ministered to by a missioner feller, —Name of Weller. * * * But, alas ! if their prayers remain unheard, Will they still have faith m t-fce pre* cious Word ? Or will they— enraged at the troublesonie thought Of wase sheets persistently showing nought— Boot, biff and bish out that missioner feller, '■ —Name of Weller ?