Garrulous Rees.
We quote the following lines from an effusion of very irregular merit, contributed under the above heading by W. T. :— Flaunting loudly the creed of the Knight of Kawau, When making the oi polloi a cringing, low bow, 'Cute and foxy ; no doubt he may gain a fair hearing, And possibly keep the grim sceptics from jeering. ' When the lion's asleep,' minor brayers are heard, Though the free independent may deem it absurd For a lion to sleep and a minor to bray Within less than a month of the great polling fray. Electors, beware of the leather-lunged babbler, We've quite quantum suff of the great genus gabbler ; Think for yourselves, and to no dictation be bound ; Vote for wisdom and worth, not for froth, gas, and sound. Fish, Seddon, and Rees ! what a leather-lunged trio To guide a young nation just now in embryo. Voters, awake ! and to private life relegate AH place-hunting harpies who'd prey on the State.
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Observer, Volume X, Issue 623, 6 December 1890, Page 9
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162Garrulous Rees. Observer, Volume X, Issue 623, 6 December 1890, Page 9
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