THE COUNTRY WEEKLY.
The type is wearing off the face The print is often blurred. And now and then in places dim I can’t make ont a word. The paper’s poor it’s printed on, Its make up's poor as well, lint for all that its local page The old home news can tell. How Peter Hunket cut his foot While chopping up some wood. Or Jeriy Tompkins has come home From Sydney now for good. It tells about the big surprise Of ’Sqnire and Mrs Naire ; How neighbours took the house by storm And left a large armchair. A full account about the dance At Jimmy Walford’s place. And all about the whooping cough And latest measles case. How Sadie Tilt is back from school. And Sunday young Sam Rame Drove into town from Walnut creek, We all know why we came. And thus the locals gossip on While memory takes me back A trifle like a score of years Along Time’s basi ning track. So I the country pa|rers take, And by the reading seek My vanished youth thus to renew In it from week to week.
Buffalo Times.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue V, 4 August 1894, Page 109
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190THE COUNTRY WEEKLY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue V, 4 August 1894, Page 109
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