SUPER ANUATED.
Farewell, farewell to ye, pens, ink, and paper ; Bills, ledgers, and dockets, I bid ye fare-
well ! No more o'ei my errors old Goosequill shall vapour, And ring, like a fury, the messenger's bell! See, here! "On her Majesty's service" — a letter— The last of such missives for me, it is clear ; " My Lords have been pleased " — sure nought could be better! — "To grant you a pension — two hundred a year! " Away, like the mist, fly the toils and the scheming Of foity years drudged in a hopeless career ; Sure now I can realise all I've been dreaming — True love, in a cot, Avith two hundred a year ! Faiewell, faxewcll to ye, faithful old cronies ; I can't spare a moment to drop ye a tear ; I'm off to the land where no tear and- no groan is; To live — or to die? — on two hundred a year! — H. J. B. August, 1900.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2425, 5 September 1900, Page 56
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154SUPER ANUATED. Otago Witness, Issue 2425, 5 September 1900, Page 56
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