Bloggs' Christmas Adventure.
A TALE WITH A MOEAL. 'Oh Caledonia, Stern and Wild !' Young Bloggs came down from Whangarei, To visit the town in Christmas glee, (Oh, a verda,nt country clown was he !) As he walked up Queen-street, bold and free, He said to himself, ith a little dubiety — ' Wouldn't it just be^a jolly old spree, And give to life a spice of variety, If I entered my name On the scroll of fame By joining the new Caledonian Society !' To think was to act ; he was off in a hurry Determined to find the Secretary, : Who worked he was told in a tailor's shop ; So up went Bloggs wifch a skip and a hop ; Buii all of a sudden he came to a stop ! For a young man stood by that tailor's door The likes of whom Blsggs ne'er saw before — So stiff he stood, Like a thing- of wood. With a vacant stare 'neath his smart Glengarry !
Bloggs stammered out ' W. Secretary, Are all Caledonians built, like you P Is that th« effect of thick burgoo ? And if I should join Tour club divine, Would I get as. proud and as,stiff as you ?' No answer came from the Scotchman bold ! And Blqggs felt all his blood run cold He trembled and shook in such a funk That down on the pavement soon ha sunk, And was quietly run in for beingr drunk ! He was flung in a cell like a lifeless thing And he heard the Celtic policeman say, Like the rqice of an angel faraway 'I hope she likes ta Highland fling !'
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Observer, Volume 9, Issue 522, 22 December 1888, Page 9
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265Bloggs' Christmas Adventure. Observer, Volume 9, Issue 522, 22 December 1888, Page 9
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