Paddy's Content;

Otago Witness, Issue 1927, 29 January 1891, Page 42

Paddy's Content;

Paddy M'Shane had no shoes to his fe9t— Sorra a shoe I— di Vila shoe! " And his houghs they looked red as he tramped ia , tho street, Och,'wirrahoo ! ' • Buthe'sfiia: 1 "Is it 'shoes that ye'd stick on me!

toes? How/d me feet feel on tho ground, sorra one of mo

knows ; And whoM pay for mendin' 'em, do you siippoae ? T (Jooff wldyo- do! " Paddy M'3hano had no hat on his head—

■ Sorraa hat !— divil a hat ! Aud the rain it camo down on his red scratch, iustepd— Och, thit>kof that! Hub he «aid : "Is It God's biassed sunshine and air That ye'd shut from me head ?(~Ach, would ono itv

ye dare ? For a trifle of rain or ay wind, who w< ulil care?

• Sthop bofcherin' Pat I "' Paddy M'Shane had juat nothing afc all— "• Sorra a tblng !— tlivll a tbinjj ! Bufc'he thought : " When I'm dowon thoie'^ no distance to fall " ; , „ And ha would sing s ' " Paix, the merciful Master is good to His poor ; What isman, whom He's made, if he cannot endure? ,- „ - Troth, It's little I want,' but that Htfcle Is sure, For it comes from the King !" • • — lawbencb Kyblb Donovan.