A Modern Recitation.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 586, 15 April 1899, Page 3

A Modern Recitation.

So you never have heard that there story, sir,

Well, I hardly know how to beguu ■Yer see, —well, thank?, I don't mind

if I do,— 'Eve, waiter, sixpen north o' gin. L The train blew over the top o'.the Jlfff, A nd the sea ran mountains hign. Eight thousand sojers was killed that night, While the flames were up to the sky. Me and Bill at the signal crossing, Heard the awful cannons roar. It was midnight out in the bush, —- "Well, boss, I think 1 10 ill have a drop more. Then away up aloft went the bosun ; "There's a lighthouse ahead," he cried. But the skipper he stuck to the mainmast, And his mother clung fast to his side. * *-h& engine rushed on through the And i.. ; v[(ii pra^ -vj O y & tack quivered all And the chuii^ + through, - -^ mm f vom While the yelp of the wol\ ' & ' bowsprit to stern, , Well, thanks, I don't mind if I do." 1 'hen the Sachem took off Ms mocassins. And put a fresh man on the fire. N^ "V 7hile the Earl, with a haughty de> meanour, f Said the bloko with the moke was a liar. 'hiQ\ x the Judge said, "You canno deceive me, Two. n^y years, and you're on a lee k -horo." And thex ~bo*s > y°u?ll hai'dlv elieve What— allright, just atanner'sworth mcm °' -B. E.