PAT'S PHILOSOPHY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2039, 19 September 1874, Page 3

PAT'S PHILOSOPHY.

When the winter i 9 cold I keep meself warm ; When the summer is. hot I keep meeelf -cool : It's mebbe I'm bold. And it's mebbe I'm not ; Bub a goasoon's a fool When he goes into harm ! Sez my old. Uncle Dan— A wise one, and stiddy — " What's the world to a man When his wife is a widdy ?" When the soldier struts by ' . ■ With his sword at his side, And the rattle, rattle drums Beat the roll and the call, He may go or may fly — ; I stay here till death comes, For I mind me of all That in battle Lave died ! I am like Uncle Dan, For he said — troth and did he — " What's the world to a man When bis wife is a widdy ?" ' When the sailor hoists sail, And stands out on the deep, Laving sweetheart or wife • And the childher behind, , He timpts the wild gale, And he trifles with life, And he sinks, d'ye mind, Where the mermaidens sleep ! • " Pat," sez old Uncle Dan, '.' Stay at home with your Biddy ; What's the. world to a man When his wife is a widdy ?" Let the scholar sit up And write late and long, To insure him a nameHe may sit up for me; Give me but a good meal, He may have all his Fame ; For it's stuff, d'ye see, And not worth an old song ! Let us live, Uncle Dan ; Let us live and love, Biddy ; What's the world to a man When his wife is a widdy ?