PAPAKDRA VALLEY,

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 924, 26 September 1896, Page 30

PAPAKDRA VALLEY,

B Mis very anxious to know who the O M is RE seems very much concerned about O M's walks. Has the ' green-eyed monster ' seized hlm?...E W's style of dancing is very much admired by the ladies..ls W Ugoing to kill any more beef ? .".Found, on Papakura Valley Road, a lemonade bottle. Does J "W know anything about 1t?... What takes W G to to-wn so often? Has he found a future bride ?..Kß's lament on T Bs departure for Auckland:— Gone ! Oh, do not say the word ;it breaks my heart in twain; Will not those happy, happy times come back to me again ? I have often sat and pondered o'er the happy days gone by— Of those happy Sunday evenings that were spent by you and I. Those delicious -walks from church, roy love, are now things of the past ; That blissful time, like a summer's night, was too beautiful to last. That littte gate upon the hill I do remember well, Where we did stand, 'neath the moon's soft light, And the thoughts in our hearts did tell. The picture that we used to draw of that blissful future state, And the number of rooms that there would be, we often did relate. The trig is now all clothed in green, the lambs bask there in glee ; And often, as I wander there, my thoughts flyback to thee. Perhaps you, in that other home, so far, so far away, Have found some other, who now leans o'er to . catch what you might say. If this be so, my only hope in the future, then, will be When I am far, yes, far away, you -will sometimes think of me.