Holiday Visitors.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 522, 22 December 1888, Page 9

Holiday Visitors.

I'Vf.KS WK SEE BUT ONCE A YiSAJi.

I. Here comes the gentle speeler, Who is always bold and gay Until he sees a peeler, When he softly slinks away ! You'll see him at the races WitJi his many cunning wiles, Picking out the country faces, And cheating while he smile a i v. I'm Ikey Mo, don't you know ; Give an honub-t ohap a show ! S'holp me ! I'm a pjmplo boy Seeking after Frishmish joy — Finding thingß that people drop, Taking them to Tinole'a shop. Blesh my shoul ! Whatsh the oddah ? Two to one I land ah in quodsh ! 111. This is the country Johnny . Who comes down blithe and bonnio And puts his money on a. bobtailed mare ; One in a ' ten bob sweep ' he makes ; But ah ! the chap who held the stakes Has faded quite from Johnny's sight, Who searches . all around 1 with wild inquiring stare ! IV. There's a grand old man in the Temperance Tent Whose features tell of a life well spent ; He has wasted no money on gin or beer. Fot the pump can spoub him his Christmas cheer ! He's a prand old man with a tinge of ' blue ' • (On his nose), and I guess he's a rrg-ular ' screw !' v.

i The squadron's in port, And our sailors love sport ; A good game a.t cricket la thought ' just the tioket'; I strike and they run j Giving people rare fun ; Men-o-war in collision Awakens derision ! !

— Mrs Finnigau : ' He's no better, dochtor. You towld me to givp (him as much of the powder as would lay on a sixpence. I hadn't a sixpence, but I gave him as much as would go on five pinnies and two halfpinnies, and it's done him no good at all, at all.'