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You are not a * Bissikle,' rhyming with ' physical,' Whizzical whirgisr queer — O Horse! without visible legs, which we quizzical Hear of this year with the ear. Nor, are you ' JBy-siggle,' not though a nice iggle Girl that I know accents 'Bi'Rhymes it with ' icicle/ lin surprise giggle, Hearing this here with the * i ' No ; not yet ' Byzel<&V Bless your poor ' i's I ' I call This worse than, either of each; A most inadvisable egotistiz-ical Liberty (like this) with speech. Trusty two-wheeler, of wood and of steel or Iron good-tempered your frames— (That is, if the dealer employed an annealer): Don't let ua call Bi-cycLea names. You take but a little sweet oil for your viotual— No hostler is feed for your feed ; And if you don't fit ill, you cost but a tittle To stand me iu-stead of a steed. Nor do you get tired, except 'tis desired If the rings of your wheels give way ; Though tivSd, un-tired— v/henever required, 0 Horse ! you will never say Neigh i
TO MY TWO-WHEELED STEED.
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Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 1004, 25 February 1871, Page 21
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175Select Poetry. Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 1004, 25 February 1871, Page 21
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