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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2030, 25 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

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[Mrs. Amanda • last week ic^^^^^^^Hpfirbet upon a needle, Waiting fur Came a Vinbo all^H^Htt%ed — Came with slow, MfIjHHtVWAi Ry the band of maMHrlU* “' Ow 1" and “ wow I" (fee infant cried; “* i racious mo : ■’ the BlHßßia sighed, As she saw the criralOß tide. Vet. though peal wag piled on peal, Mamma could not find the steel ; Which the bahy seemed to feel. Long that needle travelled through baby’s system, yet she grew Same as other babies do. Years in quick succession fly; Baby weds, and by-and-by Other babies prattle nigh. Centuries in silence HowCenturies a score or so. Generations come and go. Through them all this needle ran, Now just let some Georgia man Heat this whopper if be can. The following "lament” isintendid i" illustrate that phase of negro character m improvising songs to suit particular incident. Before the construction of the Richmond \ Alleghany Kailrood, aloiigthe towpath of the old canal, when the basin at Richmond was usually filled with boats Horn (he upper James River towns, it was no unusual thing on warm moonlight nights for the decks of these boats to be occupied by a happy and thoughtless crowd, when the pinkatink" of the banjo, the shuflling of many fed. and loud guffaws might be heard in the mar neighborhood. In the present instance, however, the musician is alone, and is suppose! to accompany his melancholy solo with a banjo. It will be observed, too, that the winding up of the song is unexpectedly sudden. This was caused by an irritable and unsentimental business man who slept in his ollicc on the basin bank, ami being annoyed by the singer as he would have been at the noise of dogs or cats, got up and threw a brick at him : (With accompaniment for banjo.) Oh loh I Mat rale-roih 1 is a-eomiu’ 1 (Tank arank adank 1) You gwiue to hear dem kyars a-huimnin* (Rank atank arank !) Wid dar rodes and dar tunnels Dey is hintin’ up de cunm N. (A pankalink. a piiukaOuk. a punkalink 1) Oh !oh 1 I tole you so. Dis ole runnel's hound for to go ! (A rinßat ink. a rankalink. a ronkatink!) Oh! far’well d.e banjo and de boat-lmm! (Tank arank adank I) When de kyars git here de will he gone 1 (Rank atank arank 1) 1 hope do muskrat cut all de l-anfs And de fresh l I wash 'way oe sills and planks ! (A paukaiink. a puiikatink. a poiikalink 1) When de eunmT bed is dry. Den ! ’ll I'll you ail gond-hv 1 (A rankatink. a rarkai iui,. a muka(ink !) Den 1 will he mighty s" n llank’rin’ alter some more T 1 (A pankalink. a punka’.'.i.k. a \ ' k ■ link !) And before de trees all Mo - m. I'll be cat in some goo 1 'pi ■•on I A rink,it ink II 1 Then the singing c a-d. ami i dived down in the cabin ns sed I- n bullfrog in a mill pond. AIT i r barging tin 1 banjo on a nail, and caiitim.sD pi king hi-* head through the hat. i,way and b.okoe. 1 arsund, he nhserved to lion-elf: ■■ i ■■.. nd : who’s dat Ihmjin’ dem thing' hj aunt lu re anyhow ?” Two Women ami a Wuase. '• Frances.' 1 said Aunt IVnnif l m rin a terrible whisper, "are you a-in p '! " I started from the lied. “ Oli. 11 ■ : wha' do yiiuwant .' ’’ I hale to have you gel up." i aid sin-, in i-r---mg over the bannister at nm. a> I | i.-d up at her, " but there's minet hi ug in the bed. I think it’s a mouse.” Mow Aunt I’ennifeather has an uncomfortable degree o[ usual coin age, as al I her 1 1 lends know.aud in that strength of spd ii t ha: Is lditd own against grief and pain, or the gi. al mysteries, she is magnificent, hut eoiilri ut her with a creeping thing and a child could lead her. “ Why didn’t you double him up in the bedclothes.’ ’’ "It has got in the pillowcase. ITam-s. Oh, don't let him out 1 "jumping upon that throne of necessity, a chair. “ Don't scream. Aunt I’ennib■atlier, 1 have the end secure, hut it isn't Bs plump as a mouse. I believe it's a hat. I'll lake Inin lo the window and .-hake him out.” Rut the thing wouldn't shake mil. and a' the children were now aroused, seaming round in their night-gowns and muon; I ,' little squeals, and their lath l r shouted from below. ’■ What’s the row. Ran ' I com-lud.-d to take (he object to him. Tlie Capi.iiii jumped out of bed and seized a cane. I li I ■■ I the bath-tub with water, while he passed Ins hand quickly over the plot uheiauee. 101 l it stuck last. '• .'Shake. Rninoes.” A dark thing fell into the nan r and »ainstant !y submerged by a Mow trmii the ran -. It rose delianlly. Another lil .w wiio me stick. •• Hold it under the water, shouted some. hodv. , ... "Is it dead squealed Aunt I’eiiioleal hei behind the crack of the door. ■■ Head? ’’ roared (he Captain : " is has hei n dea l a hundred years. Take your old Mack kidglove and don’t try to pass it oil fora wild animal down here. He Did Surprise Her--A gentleman living in the Northwestern part of the city has two very smart children, Charley, aged seven, and Maudic, just passed five. The other morning Maudie said to her brothi i. ■‘Charley, now you nuis' do eomelin to s’]iri/,c me.” What for?” queried Charley. "Just because,” was the feminine, but illogical answer. Twenty minutes later Maudie. hall whimpering and half laughing, complained to her mother.— Ma. 1 told Charley he inns’ do somelia to s'prize me, and he's gone and et all my cake." A dispute about Religion —Two persons in a country hotel in Kentucky were once disputing so loudly on the subject of religion that they awoke a big dog which had been sleeping on 1 hr hearth before them, and lie forthwith barked most furiously. Ai old divine who happened t > be present while the disputants were talking, gave the (log a kick.and exclaimed : " Hold yonr tongue, you silly brute! ym. know no more about it than thev do.”