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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 6 June 1868, Page 1 (Supplement)

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THE BALLAD OF BILLY BAKER. •Tune— 1 "- One-horse Shay. 1 ' Mister William Bakor, iCarte-de-visite taker — Many a-smart and pretty girl he'd woo'd,^[ know; But none had gained his heart lUntil he took the earto Of Mtos Jemima Jenkins, in his stu-di-o. "Jemima, dear, 1 ' said lie, '•JVIy love's intense 1 for thea, No oilier girl has madenne sensitive, -I vow.; Your image is impress'd (On this excited breast, il'lliideveitppe, print, and fix it in iny-_tu-di-o. 1 Of silver 'l've nitrate ; '-Iron, protosulphate ; I've chloride of gold, aud lots of other rhino, I've cam'ra, lens, and stand, And all at>your command, heaps of apparatus in my stu-di-o." ■The girl turned up her nose — " Take such black paws as those, With heeffc that's quite as Wack.ifor anything I know ! .A negative I give, 'I really, could'nt live With a,photographic duffer in a stu-di-o." 'This to Billy Baker Was a sad heart-breaker — -".Myllreaclis out of focus everywhere M go ; My fate fl'll soon decide By talcing' cyanide, Aad do myfinal fixing. in my stu-di-o." On suicido intent, To dark room then he went, But instead of cyanide he swallowed th' hypo. Although it gave him pain, He soon got well again, .But. never flirted after in his slu-dv-o. Mobal. .Keep-each proper label On bottles on the table, Or when you want to kill yourself you'll not know how.; You'll only get the gripes Among your precious -tripes, And feel very queer and foolish iv your etu-di-o.