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Southland Times, Issue 3416, 2 June 1879, Page 4

Business Notices. i I i i i I ' A N i ORIGINAL POEM. My figure dapper is and small,] My coat the newest cut, My hair it'hangeth long and straight, My collar standeth up, — My brain is big, my hat is tall, My eye is filled with fire, A modern bard am I who don't Object to write for hire. One evening as I wandered forth Fair ,Nature's face to scan, Thei'e sudden came and linked my arm A pushing draper man ; I * , ' What do you want ?" said I to him " 1 ' "We want," said he "to tell' , 1 The public that we ever strive ■ To clothe them cheap and well. " " My terms " said I, " to vaunt your goods By ways so new and terse, As will draw wandering crowds to.buyi ■Are" six and eight; a verse." "-What six.and eight!" this man did say, i His brow began to lower, " We cannot give you six arid eight We'll give you three and four." 'Twas four he said, four he meant, • He keen.my face did scan; He likes to buy things cheap for cash, He's Scotch, this draper man. " No, No," I said, it may not be, Your price I cannot touch " " You may " he said, "we do not pay Our novelist so much." ' Then if it must, with lesser verse' Will I your your goods bedeck, - Anddesser verse and easy rhymes May make a better cheque." " Go on, and name your theme," said I, " That's easy done," said he, "The theme is bargains to be bought , For cash from TSe B." " It is a hackneyed theme," I said, • "It is a general cry; 1 Each draper sings the' self -same song " The Cheapest Draper I." "They do," .he said, but still we know Our customers will tell, Enquiring strangers that they^nd We do things cheap and well." ' > '/;•!.• ' This is the object of our care, This is the end we prize, Who best. do gain their patrons' praise, They best do advertise." ' . ' " To the dumb is, to be forgot, But still, 'tis not the cry, That swells the trade, the secret stalls knowing where to buy." ■' And have you shilling. shirts," I said, ! " Alack 1 Alas 1 " Said he, " We have no shilling shirts but have Some shirts at two and three." " And two and nine,- and three and six, And six, and eight, and ten, And fifteen shillings; wide and long Shirts that are shirts for men." " And flannels, undershirts, and drawers, And suits, and bats," said he, " That do invest the human form With added majestic." " And Ladies Dresses, bonnets, hats, A rich and vaiied show, Silk scarfs, and cuffs, and collaretts At prices very low." " Of Flannels,; Winseys, Cottons Tweeds, We have a great display, And Druggetings, and Oarpeiings — Good goods for every day," "And ask," he said, all thrifty wives Not fait to come and see, The Chinese matting that we sell For fourpence ha' pennie." " And you may add, if matting falls As it may likely do,, We'll give them some to take away Aud add a reel or two." " And has your firm roots widely spread And branches fair to view " " We have," he said with modest mein A branch in Timbuctoo." " In Timbuctoo " I doubting cried, " Do not so wildly stare," " We must have, like our friends, said he, Our branches in the air." And so he said, and so I sing Tiiat all may goand see, The varied bargains they may get For CASH from T & S. T& B think their poet has scarcely fulfilled his contract, he seems to be more anxious to advertise himself than to advertise their business. OJPXNJEiD OUV. Ex LYTTELTON. Ladies Bonnets, Hats, Jackets, Costumes, Sec. Men's, Boys, and Youth's Cloth. ing, Overcoats^ &c. Goods expected daily from the "Weßtland" now discharging. ! Invoices received of goods shipped hy the "Otago," " Millwall," [ and "Celaeno." - > Our Buyer writes us that he has never in his experience seen cheaper goods' than those shipped us. THOMSON & BEATTIE. '- ■ ) INVERCARGILL, WINTON, AND GORE. - 1160 , ' J ' ,*v * > *