GRAND SCHEME OF EMIGRATION.
The brewers should to Malt-a go, The loggerheads to Scilly; The Quakers to the Friend-ly Isles, The far-riers to Chili. The little bawling, squalling babes, Who break our nightly rest, Should be pack'd off to Baby-lon, To Lap-land, and to Brest. From Spithead, cooks go o'er to Greece; And while the miser waits His passage to the Guinea coast, Spendthrifts are in the Straits. Spinsters should to the Needles go, Wine-bibbers to Burgundy; Gourmands should lunch at Sandwich Isles, Wags to the bay of Fun-dy. Musicians hasten to the Sound, The surpliced priests to Rome (roam), While still the race of hypocrites At Cant-on are at hone. Lovers should hasten to Good Hope, To some Cape Horn is pain ; Debtors should go to O-hi-o, And sailors to the Maine. The bachelors to the United States, Maids to the Isle of Man ; Let gardners all to Botany go, And shoe-blacks to Japan. Thus emigrate, and misplaced men Will then no longer rex us ; And all that ain't provided for Had better go to Texas.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 696, 16 August 1870, Page 3
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177GRAND SCHEME OF EMIGRATION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 696, 16 August 1870, Page 3
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