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Southland Times, Issue 3430, 18 June 1879, Page 4

—^^ »»—^^^— Biisines Notices. TMT . 0 R E O F IT The Draper man he came to me And said, "This thing wont do ; This biil'of sixty-eight and four, Which we did pay to you." " You knoWithatmoney's.jeryJight, And prices coining down, Instead of three-and-f our a verse -- We'll pay you half-a-crown." '' You must admit it is absurd . That we should pay you so, .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 diguitie." He said, " All poetry s absurd ; We must c ecorus be ; We must have sober facts, prose, and 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 1 The ships upon the sea, ' And watt them them safely on their way With goods for T. & B," " And blow, my gentle poet, blow, And so design our lay, That when the winds do blow them here. You'll blow the goods away." "Just' say our winceys tuppence are ; Tweeds threepence, strong and stout, That our sixpenny flannels are The cheapest flannels out." .. ' ." But have you got^uch things " I said, He solemn wiuked an eye, " We'll sell enquirers something else When they do come to buy." " This is an age when modest men Go to thV-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 the .man that blew. " So Mr Poet drive along, And honest earn.your fee ; And urge your pen to higher flights In praise of T. & B." "Be sure and put-it hot and strong, In verses neatly made ; ■ < But if we pay you half-a-crown - - You'lbtake it out.- in trade." I wondering looked, he calmly stood Aud keen my face did scan, v 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' luvercargill, Winton, Gore,' And High street,*Timbuctoo. T. and B. 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 in- • stance to produce a graceful and tender piece of verse that would form a sugar coating for, and direc - public attention to, the more busi-ness-like part of their advertisement. — He said he' would. The only thing he was especially asked to notice was blankets of which wehavealarge quantity, — He said hewould'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 foundation, as is also the statement that he was asked to say we had winceys at twopence, and tw eeds at threepence — \ye have no such goods, and we emphatically deny that we ever asked him to say we had. Having asked him to explain what he meant by saying, we have a branch establishment in Timbucti o,— He said it is only one of these poetical fictions that are necessary in a good advertisement. . As we are not able, to get our poet to follow any except his own sweet way, we are under the necessity of informing pur friends in prose, that at no time have our stocks been 3 so EXTENSIVE, VARIED, OR SUCH GOOD VALUE AS AT PRESENT. ■ LADIES' JACKETS, COSTUMES, HATS, • AtfD BONNETS, Are in the newest styles and are excellent value. Dress Goods of every description at Prices to suit Everybody. FLANNELS, WINCEYS, DRUGGETINGS, PLAIDINGS, , AND BLANKETS FROM THE MAND-' ■FAOTURERS. i ■ ' MENS •; YOUTH'S, AND BOYS' SUITS. , MENS,' YOUTHS', and BOYS' OVER-., ' .'' /'.',. COATS,'- „ " „-, . AND MENS', YOUTHS', and BOYS' * , SHIRTS. . /; ■--_ ] "We have just opened large shipments, and as we have Invoices of f u<tner shipments by , tube "OTAGO," "CELAENO," ."MILLIVALL," "ELECTRA," and " CAPECLE AR," our friends may be pretty "certain that we lave marked .everything low; we can't afford io have'goods hang on our hands. "BIG PROFITS WON'T PAY US ■ THOMSON 'ft BEATIIE, INVEBCARGrLL, WINTON, AND ; .-. "' : GORE.