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‘Peter the ’Ermit was a ‘oly blok… The parson sez, ‘wot chivvied cove… ‘Too right,’ I chips. 'I’ve ‘ear… ‘Brave knights sprung straight to… ‘Sure thing,’ sez I. 'It muster b…
There ain’t enough of strikes an’… There ain’t enough of strife, There ain’t enough dislikes an’ th… In this ‘ere modern life: ’Ow can we ‘ope to ’ave unrest
My natal day was yesterday; And so I said to Fate, ‘What gifts bring you, by one, by… To ease my parlous state?’ ‘I proffer blindly,’ Fate replied…
Once on a time a general whose nam… To the present generation as a nam… Once on a time this general - I t… This happened years and years ago,… This general once stood before his…
A new chum went, to ease his care, A-many years ago, To loiter round Toolangi where The stately blue gums grow. No bushcraft had he for his quest,
He was a Glug of simple charm; He wished no living creature harm. His kindly smile like sunlight fel… On all about, and wished them well… Yet, 'spite the cheerful soul of…
When I led you to the altar Vows were made, you’ll call to min… Darling wife. Now a defaulter Must I seem if I’d be kind. For you know how well I love you,
‘Some I got with amber stems an’… Bent ones an’ straight ones an’ al… A lot of pipes, sez you, for one o… But, folks, as soon as Christmas… ‘We’ll give old Pete a pipe,' the…
Hawkins wasn’t in the swim at all… And to bait him was our chiefest f… But, in justice, be it said that h… (That’s why I’m standing here and… He was trav’ling for a company, in…
‘Young friend!’ . . . I tries to… ‘E sees me first, an’ ‘as me by th… ‘Young friend!’ 'e sez; an’ starts… At meetin’ me. ‘Why, this,’ ‘e s… Events is workin’ better than I p…
He came into the bird-shop where… A hulking giant, monumental, grim, A paragon of muscular manhood. ‘What is sold here,’ I thought, ‘… His heavy brow, his grat, prognath…
Government muddles, departments da… Fear and confusion wherever he gaz… Order insulted, authority spurned, Dread and distraction wherever he… Oh, the great King Splosh was a s…
I love all gum-trees well. But,… I love the tough old warriors that… About these lawns, to make a great… And guard, like sentries, this exo… Of shrub and fern and flower.
There’s a very funny insect that y… And it isn’t quite a spider, and i… It is something like a beetle, and… But nothing like a wooly grub that… Its name is quite a hard one, but…
Stuffed with tradition and trammel… Cramped in their studies, they sne… At the strange, new passions young… Thro’ a sunlit land, and a tale un… Of youth’s ambition - new-minted g…