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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355311" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Queer Ways Of Australia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dick Briggs, a wealthy farmer’s son,<br>To England lately took a run,<br>To see his friends, and have some fun,<br>For he’d been ten years in Australia.<br>Arrived in England, off he went<br>To his native village down in Kent—<br>’Twas there his father drew his rent,<br>And many happy days he’d spent.<br>No splendid, fine clothes on had he,<br>But jumper’n boots up to the knee,<br>With dirty Sydney ‘cabbage-tree’—<br>The costume of Australia.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chorus:<br>Now when a fellow takes a run<br>To England for a bit of fun,<br>He’s sure to ’stonish everyone<br>With the queer ways of Australia.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Dick went home in this array;<br>His sister came out and did say,<br>‘No, we don’t want anything today,’<br>To her brother from Australia.<br>Cried he, ‘Oh, don’t you know poor Dick?’<br>They recognized him precious quick;<br>The ‘old man’ hugged him like a brick.<br>And there was feasting there that night,<br>For Richard was a welcome sight,<br>For each one hailed with great delight<br>The wanderer from Australia.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The blessed cattle on the farm<br>Regarded Dick with great alarm;<br>His swearing acted like a charm<br>When he gave ’em a ‘touch’ of Australia.<br>He could talk ‘bullock’ and ‘no flies’,<br>And when he blessed poor Strawberry’s eyes,<br>She looked at him with great surprise<br>As out of her he ‘took a rise’.<br>‘Fie, fie,’ his mother said one day,<br>‘What naughty, wicked words you say.’<br>‘Bless you, mother, that’s the way<br>We wake ’em up in Australia.’<br>Dick went to London for a spree,<br>And got drunk there most gloriously;<br>He gave them a touch of ‘Coo-oo-ee’<br>The bush cry of Australia.<br>He took two ladies to the play,<br>Both so serene, in dresses gay,<br>He had champagne brought on a tray<br>And said, ‘Now girls, come fire away.’<br>They drank till they could drink no more,<br>And then they both fell on the floor.<br>Cried Dick, as he surveyed them o’er,<br>‘You wouldn’t do for Australia!’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Thatcher">Charles Thatcher</a><div class=q>
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To England lately took a run,
To see his friends, and have some fun,
For he’d been ten years in Australia.
Arrived in England, off he went
To his native village down in Kent—
’Twas there his father drew..."></div>
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