OTHELLOS OCCUPATION GONE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 50, 16 December 1893, Page 528

OTHELLOS OCCUPATION GONE.

Il ever the wonderful age comes round IBe that age or near or distant When mothers in-law by the law are bound To be creatures non existent— That is to say, when an act unique Requires, if a pair get married, That the mothers of those who the altar seek Shall be to the halter carried : How, how, in that age—alack and alas ! — Will the comic journalist earn his brass ?

If ever an age comes round when ‘ booze ' Abhorred with such hate intense is, That never a clubman is known to lose His balance, or lose his senses, While homeward bound if an age comes round When the topper and tie awry gone, And the lamp post hugged, and the key unt’onnd Are matters of history bygone : How, how, in that age—alack and alas ! Will the comic journalist earn his brass?

If ever in England there comes a time When the law shall esteem it- proper To charge the wretch with a capital crime Who pokes a joke at a ‘ copper ’ : A rime when onr butchers are, one and all, With the honesty craze so smitten That the man will be Bedlamed who dares to scrawl About sausages made from kitten ; A time when some statute will gents restrict From tipping their hostelry waiter ; When no bard by the editor fiend is kicked, No dude by his darling’s pater: How, bow, in that terrible age—alas I — Will the comic journalist earn his brass?