And now the Horse takes the raping in hand, and pulls the huge machines
That go clicking and snicking across the fields of wheat, oats, barley,
and beans;
Ye've got machines for sowing, and thrashing, and raping, between and
betwixt,
And, troth, it's my private opinion ye'll have a machine for eating it
next!
But we'll throw the sickle aside, MOLLY, and go and try our luck
On the banks of the far Australian strames, where the otter is billed
like a duck:
For there's mate, and drink, and clothes, MOLLY, and riches and rank to
be won.
At the Anti--what d'ye call the place, on t'other side of the sun?
And there'll be no land-agents, nor middlemen, nor Jews,
But ye'll see me stoning lumps of gould at the beggarly Kangaroos;
And there's nayther shooting of bailiffs, nor any such wicked fun,
In land that lies beneath our feet, on t'other side of the sun.
And no more masses to pay for!--good day to ye, FATHER O'BLADD,
The last Confession from me, faiks, and the very last penny ye've had;
It's little Yer Reverence leaves behind when ye clear away our sin,
As the prophet sez, ye purge our dross, and take precious care of the
tin.
Ye've a bandage on yer wrist, MOLLY; that wrist with gems I'll deck,
And a string of nuggets, like millstones, I'll hang about yer neck,
And we'll live in a snug retirement where our nearest neighbour'll be
The EMPEROR OF CHINA, who will sometimes look in to tea!
Och! the world we're leaving, MOLLY, is a world of grief and care,
For even the pigs and potatoes are not the angels that once they were;
But the world we're going to, MOLLY, is where the giants of ould
Buried--for want of a better bank--their stocking-legs crammed with
gould!
It's a world of wonders, MOLLY, a world without a peer;
For what it has, and what it wants, we've nothing like it here:
But of all its wondrous things, it seems the strangest thing to me
That there the labouring man's the man gets first to the top o' the tree.
* * * * *
SEA-SIDE INTELLIGENCE.
A _spirituelle_ young lady writes up from Ramsgate to say:--"In the
morning, my dear, we have a delivery of letters by the Post. In the
afternoon we have another delivery--the delivery of husbands, brothers,
_cousins_, or beloved acquaintances, as the case may be, by the
steam-packet. In this manner, darling, we have a _mail_-delivery twice
a-day. It would ill-become _me_ to say _which_ one I like best."
* * * * *
NECROMANCY FOR GENTS.
Table-rapping with Genuine Spirits every evening at the SHADES Harmonic
Free and Easy, in Scamp's Alley. A Medium in the Bar--but "goes" of
whiskey, brandy, rum, or gin unlimited.
* * * * *
TEST FOR TRAVELLERS.
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