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Southland Times, Issue 3419, 5 June 1879, Page 4

Business Notices; - ■ : 1%/ f" ORE OF ITThe Draper man he came to me And said, " This thing wont do ; This bill of sixty-eight and four, Which we did pay to you." " You know that moneys very tight, And prices coming down, Instead of three-and-four a verse We'll pay you half-a-crown." f{ You must admit it is absurd That we should pay you so, , 1 For rhymes like ' Mary's little lamb ' Whose fleece was white as snow." < But in there came a tall dark man, Who said, " This-may not be," He said •' Within these doggerel rhymes There is no digaitie." He said,-" AH poetry's absurd ; We musli cecoius be ; We must have sober facts, prose, and 1 Respectabilitie." Then fiercely looked my Draper man : " Oh, fiddlestick !" he said, "We want not dignity— we'want To do a stirring trade." , " Then blow, ye freshening breezes, blow The ships upon the sea, And waft them them safely on their way With goods for/T. & B," " And blow, my gentle poet, blow, And so design ;your lay, !-' ' That when the winds do blow them 'here You'll 'blow the goods away." " Just say,6ur winceys tuppence are ;, Tweeds threepence, strong and stout, 1 That our 1 sixpenny flannels are The cheapest flannels out." I " But have you got such things " I said, 1 ' He solemn winked an eye, f " We'll sell enquirers something else When they do come to buy." " This is an age'when modest men ■ Go to the wall "said he, I sighing said, " That's even so Look at yourself and me." Serene did look my Draper man The inference he drew Was that he was the modest man And I th.c man that 'blew. ; #.Sor.-Mr Poet drive^long, And honest earn your fee ; And urge, your pen to higher flights In praise of T. & B." " Be sure and put itrhot and strong, ' In verses neatly made ; ' ' But if we pay you half-a-crown ■ You'll takeit out in*trade.!' -I wondering looked, he calmly stoodAnd keen my face did scan, He likes to have his moneys worth, He's Scotch, my .Draper man. And so he said, and so I sing That all, the. goods may view In Invercargill, Winton, Gore, And High street, Tirabuctod. T. and iB. fear they will have to withdraw their commissions from ■. the gentleman who has executed the poetical part of their advertisement. He was asked in the present : instance to prpduce a graceful and tender piece of verse that would form a sugar coating forj and'direc'. public attention tOj the-mbre busi-ness-like part of ' their advertisement.— He said he would. The only thing -he ■= was especially asked to notice was blankets of which we have a large quantityj-— He said he would'nt as they would rhyme with nothing but tanpits, and tanpits would destroy the grace of any verse. . His description of the tall dark man who objected to poetry, is- quite without foundar. t tion, as is also the statement that .he was asked to say we had: winceys at: .twopence, and tweeds at threepence- — wehave.no such goods, and we emphatically deny, that we ever asked him to say, : we had. Having aeked him to explain what he meant by saying we have a branch establishment in Timbncti 0,— He 1 said it is only one of these poetical fictions that are iiecessary in a good advertisement. : ■ ■ . - ' As we 'are ndt able to get our poet to follow any except his own sweet way, we are under the necessity of informing our friends in prose, that at no time have our stocks been so . EXTENSIVE, VARIED, -OR SUCH GOOD VALUE AS AT PRESENT. LADIES' JACKETS, COSTUMES, HATS, AST) BO N N E T S, Are in the newest styles and are excellent value. Dress Goods of every description at Prices to suit Everybody. FLANNELS, WINCEYS, ' DRUGGETINGS, PLAIDINGS, ;anp ' ;" ■■'..: BLANKETS FROM THE MANUFACTURERS. MENS ,'. YOUTH'S, AND BOYS' SUITS. MENSi* YOUTHS', and BOYS' OVERCOATS, AND MENS', YOUTHS', and BtiYS 1 SHIRTS. 1 I We have just 'opened large shipments, and ( as we have Invoices of fuHber; shipments by the "OTAGO" '"CELAENO," "MILLI-i VALL," " ELECTRA," and « CAPE CLEAR," our friends may 1 be pretty certain that we; have marked everything low; we can't afford j 10 have goods, hang 1 on our hands. ! i , 1 TbT&l pSoFITS WON'T PAY US TIOMSON & BEITT-IE, ' - INVEROARGILL, WINTON, AND ' • ' GOBE.