That Bicycle Bugle.

Otago Witness, Issue 1640, 28 April 1883, Page 19

That Bicycle Bugle.

Aia-The Old Oaken Bucket. ' < How near to my ear are the notea of that trumpet ! Xhey flc«t on the breeze with (he dawn'dearly "gat; I swallow them down with my Sunday tea crumpet, And dream of their din in ttie dead of the night How of ton, when trying some rhythmic inditinjr' When just at the door of my subject I knock ' ' ' There comes through the window— upsettine— affrighting— r b The tcreech of our bugle that toots on our block That bicylu bu>:le, that six-dollar bugle ' l That double-deekad bugle that toots on our block. I've stood the street organ, the flfer and drummer But btonding this bugle is no sort of fuu ; ' • If "tweren't b» expensive, I'd charter a plumber. * ™6n6 nd u, older^* rap ln l J B . iMt.curve oat one. ■ When blown by its ownfer-some pobr JgncWug— 1 IttiesupmyneryosinfoagTdvaSceSookV"-^

Td wther have eercbro-tpinal jim-jamus Than list to tho bugle that gooch i n < ur block. That fiitaetto buglo that wliid-'pivined bujrle — Tnat calfibrayin^ bugle that toots on our frock. There's work for the Lea/jfuo in this brasisn formation

Suppress it, in toto ; or ahurtun its scope By raising the rate on its free importation ; Consider the matter— do, please, Colonel J'ope. 'I. think ot tho fellows, with rapt admiration, Who threw the tea overb' ard into the dock. And wish they wore living iv thin goucration To chuck in the bugler who toots on our bloclr. Thst steel j -nerved buglt-r - that orerjrown bugler — 'Thab limber lunged bug'or that toors on our block. J - 8/ Conast Footer, in the Bicycling World.