COMMANDERRING.
Oar hero was a Tommy with a oonsoienoe ffcee from care, c i And suoh an open countenance that -when he oreathed the air - ! He mopped iip all the atmosphere — So little went to spar* "- " ' . You could hardly say he breathed, he " commandeered " it. And nowadays. you'll notioe when a man ia "on the make," '•« And other poople'p, property ie anxious for ->, to tike, > We never use suoh words as " »teM," or J.- c "c<jllar,". u , pincfi'^or •♦lhake." , No, the fashion is to Say we' " cominan- > . deese.d,"' it. - '*-.'> And owe ' simple- mtndtfd^hpro' used to - grumble kt his lot, j- , < Said h&; t HThia "cotamaodeering's "ju^t"a' little bit to 3 hot, yA fellow baa id quvtj every blooming thing ' he's got ; " t Whatever he puts down they'll commandeer it." r ..s ' "^ ' *r , ';' j So after much anxiety our > simple-minded _Glf 'J U , /-' - -^*#_, -J >-/p He t^oup;hVhe'd do/a little oommandeeringfor himself. , .- - r ' - „- And fclie -firit things that .hebotjced was a , * ' «-^« -^ ' - Ih.a cottage, so b.V thought he'd commta1 -'6[eef it,' - -- ' >. \ What ho i "/s'ayshe, " a bottle, sad, by .• --a C<Jjeorie,lt'stuirQf bW, '^A , A. -' i {, *And4no'comman'dih^ "ojSepr Ko oome s and - / ; i interfere;' 1 .,- "f," f , ";- ' '- ' :\ "\'~ Bero'a'mjrJo^fß blooming health," says he, -'-•' t|i?n oxi thecotnmttndeer." , * -; ,And\^Uhou^*anpther word; he bopamap-, >* rf'r^i^t '- '"f'^i -ri'^'i ' ; \ ,^^>-~ Onhig /subsequent probeedinga we must ] i «^-&n.yt ;» U^tld vtSgfcfif?, **%; ;>^,' i-;&}% .$ I flr' I fti8 P ,Boertf had : lelikBom.e ;#Heepdip Itt s,^th*t?li»ttle Tftb'all^le^lrr?^ H '! y4.'
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 17, 10 July 1900, Page 3
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232COMMANDERRING. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 17, 10 July 1900, Page 3
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