JINGLES BY A JOURNEYMAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2299, 24 March 1898, Page 56

JINGLES BY A JOURNEYMAN.

I* ii By T. Bend.

j THE PLEASURES 03? THE UPLANDS. Said the man who struck the township sleepinjf underneath the hills : "1 cannot understand at all how anybody fills , His idle hours upon this spot, when even in the town v It takes a fellow all his time to keep from feeling down. And there we have our libraries, our theatres and such, But even so our holdidays are seldom up to much. "Then, if we want to take a trip, the railway is at hand ; A steamboat, top, at any time we always can command. The trams are always ready, or, to do the thing ia style, A hansom cab will take us if we want to move a . mile. And yet, with these advantages, the city's often slow, So how you rustics live up here at all I fail to know." The country townsman answered him who from the city came : "This little place I must confess at first seems pretty tame. But when a man gats used to it he J ll never more abide Tae haughty ways of city folk and all their empty pride ; And )f lie meets the stony glare of any citysnob, lls'll bai rack fo? the country town I'm game to bet a, bob." Then spake again the city man : " That's not the point at all." (The countryman unwitfiDgly had raised hia hearer's gill.) " New what I want to know is this : How pass 3'on here thf time "With little else that I can see than barren hilk to climb ; . . With pub. alone for meeting place, where offc a tipsy crew ludnlsce ia conversation tinged with oaths of crimson hus?" The other spoke : " You little know what plea* suras here are found, Or else such idle questions you would not to me propound. , You vs never seen a bonspiel on the curling darn neyond, ' When the band was sweetly playing on the firmly-frozen pond ; You've never seen us skating on a frosty winter** night, - When the twinkling stara above us lent an allsufficient light ; "You hive never in the summer seen a proper fancy fair Over at the station home3tead"in the balmy open. air, "Wh-ye the little maypole dancers _tripp'd ifc lightly on the green, ~*" ' To the sweet and merry music that enlivened upthe scene, "White a crowd from 20 miles around stood watching till the spell Of tue music grew too catching.'and they had to dacce as wsll : "You have never climbed those barren heights and viewed the scene afar, Where the lakes of grey and pzure and the snowy ranges are ; You hive never watched the nozzle on a bright and sunny day, While the sim was painting rainbows on the of ten> scattered spray ; Yen ';a\ o nevei in the winier seen a fairy field of ice, Wiiece a strange fantastic garden grew and j withered in a trice. "Have you ever in the twilight whipp'd tha running stream.for troufc, And enjoyed the sweets of fortune when you ; bawled a beauty out? Yon have never had a gallop at a racing speeJ, : psi chance, lv the air of early morning when returning from a dance ? A moonlight drive for many miles you maybe haven't tried, With ths sweetest girl in all the' world a-sithng by your side ? s "You have seldom heard the music in the murmur of a brook? At a host of feathered songsters you have scarcely h.id a look ? You have never shared the friendship of tne rough, good-hearted crew That now and then come into town and have a glass or two? Had you done what I have mentioned there would be no cause to fear That, surprise you'd be expressing as to now we live up here." — LeadiDg Tragic Man : " Did you sea how I paralysed the audience in the death I scene ? By G-eorge, they were crying all over the house!" Stage Manager: "Yes. They knew you weren't really dead." — Cornered by Fright.— "That escaped criminal' seems to have had rather the best; of ifc," remarked the talkative friend. HNofc at all," replied the detective, drawing himself up haughtily. "We've made him so frightened he dossn't dare show his face where we are." Ifc is not unusual for druggists to recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to their customers. Many of them have used ifc themselves, or in their families, and know from personal experience its great value in the treatment of coughs, colds, and croup. They know, too, thafc their customers are their best friends, and naturally wish to give them the most reliable medicine they have for those ailments. Messrs Daugherfcy 8r05.,, prsminenfc druggists of Indiana, Pa., say : "We sell more of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy than of any other cough syrup, and always take pleasure in recommending it to oar customers." Mr H. M. Urey, the popular druggist at Fredonia, Fa., who has sold Cham* berlain's Cough Remedy for several years, iavs i "I can truly say that ib is the best cough medicine in the market." Foe sale by all leading chemists.