EDITOR'S WALLET.

Otago Witness, Issue 1764, 12 September 1885, Page 27

EDITOR'S WALLET.

Yogel Redivivus. Some years ago — wo think about the time that Sir Julius, Vogel left the Colony to indulge in a European tour at the Colony's expense — a smart parody on " You'll remember me," appeared in the Otago Daily Times. A clever lady who resides close to Oamaru, who has an excellent memory, and who takes an intelligent interest in politics, has sent us a copy of the parody, which we have pleasure in reproducing, as a thing very appropriate at present, when a portion of the Press degrades itself and insulhs the colonists by pusillanimously pointing to Sir Julius Vogel as the only person who can efficiently help the Colony in its present straits. We may say that our correspondent writes the parody from memory, and, that being unable to recall the original of the first quatrain of the last verse, she has, with due apoligies to the unknown author, substituted four lines of her own composition. The verses read us follows : When other loans and other wastes The public debt shall swell, To figures whose precise amount No human tongue can tell ; When bankruptcy and ruin wait. In no remote degree Impending this devoted State, Then you'll remember me. When times are bad and cash is ha>'d, You'll wonder at the skill | I've shown in feathering a nest To fly to when I will. I guess you'll wish you were a bird Of like dexterity. To gull the people in a word ; Then you'll remember me. When property won't sell for pence, When goods won't sell at all. When trade is dead, and confidence Is tottering to its fall ; The land funds and the jetty dues, Seized by the mortgagee, And everybody in the blues, Then you'll remember me. When children cry aloud for bread, And wives are worn and sad, When husbands roam the streets for work, That is not to be had ; When Nemesis, avenging fate. Proclaims her stern decree, You'll wish you could absquatulateThen you'll remember me.