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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Thursday and Saturday - 25th & 27th June 1908

Solo—watt-Buncombe

Solo—watt-Buncombe.

Now that I've come ashore
Of press reporters a score
All shoving and hustling
A-jostling and bustling
Encircle me as before.

When I was an Oxford don,
I met a smart fellow named Von
We used to play poker
With a joint Tapioca
A Trinity Dublin John.

I became a Professor one day
And forthwith was hurried away,
I packed up to travel
To try and unravel
The Socialist schemes of the day.

I went to the Emerald Isle
To visit auld Pat for a while
Then journeyed by tram
To the Assouan dam
To visit the Sphinx and the Nile.

Try Wallace & Gibson, "The Kash." for Winter Underclothing, Gloves, and Overcoats.

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You will find "Lucy" all right.

I was told to see Naples and die
Though really I cannot say why
'Twas very respectable
Highly delectable
Though somewhat inclined to be high.

I roamed with the Romans in Rome
And visited Homer at Home
I called on the Shah
And also the Czar
But the latter was not at home.

Saw Paris on the Seine
Berlin on the Spree
Then took me by train
To traverse the main
By the side of the Zuyder Zee.

I went for a wireless walk
From Liverpool to New York
Got hold of a nigger
Who wasn't de rigeur
And endeavoured to cleanse him with chalk.

Slowly
But I was till this day in June
Aesthetically out of tune,
As a beautiful treat
There is nothing to beat
The poetical Auckland moon.