A COUSIN JACK YARN.
Tredenning, miner, Corni&hmniii .Whose.'mates this tale assert) Stepped on a, cage, a pasty in The bosom of his shirt.
The pa&ty felL dropped down <Ikj shaft, From side to side it bumped ; Till on an iron flat-sheet dowm Two hundred feet was bumped.
Hi', mate, what's doin' j'ou up there? The flat-man 'twas that spoke; Tour pasty's here as good as newi But, Lord! the flat-sheet's broke. ■* Bulletin.
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Thames Star, Volume xxxix, Issue 9757, 8 September 1900, Page 1
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72A COUSIN JACK YARN. Thames Star, Volume xxxix, Issue 9757, 8 September 1900, Page 1
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