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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539528" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Australia's Pride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Pat Ahearne, of Ingleburn<br> Upon the Castlereagh,<br>Was flush of cash and very &quot;flash&quot;<br> As shearer-persons say.<br>At Yankee grab his luck was cool,<br>At loo he'd lately scooped the pool;<br>He'd simply smashed the two-up school -<br> [Assisted by a &quot;grey!&quot;]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Pat grew then like other men,<br> His head began to swell;<br>As he was fly he thought he'd try<br> The Sydney folks as well.<br>&quot;Their chances would be mighty slim<br>Of working any points on him,<br>When Euchre Bill and Ginger Jim<br> Had found he was a sell!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But bushmen's games are not the games<br> That Sydney spielers play;<br>A country smarty's &quot;just their dart,&quot;<br> The city sharpers say.<br>And Patrick he was taken down<br>For all he had, but half-a-crown,<br>Before he'd been in Sydney town<br> For more than half a day!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas well for Pat, the shearer, that<br> He'd had the sense to pay<br>His fare's return to Ingleburn<br> Before he went away.<br>It's not what you could call a joke<br>To find yourself completely &quot;broke&quot;;<br>But Patrick had a splendid stroke<br> In store for Castlereagh!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He found a shop - an oyster-shop -<br> Where lobster, crab and cray<br>Were all alive, and seemed to thrive;<br> And purchased straight-away<br>Some crayfish and some lobsters, too<br>(Such things are cheap in Woolloomooloo),<br>And caught the Western mail that flew<br> Towards the Castlereagh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The train was crowded; which allowed<br> No sleeping on the trip.<br>Pat had a flask, and thought to ask<br> The men to take a nip.<br>Just then a lobster chanced to find<br>The bag unclosed, and, feeling kind,<br>It gave a man a nip; but mind,<br> It was not on the trip!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then some crayfish got away,<br> With lobsters, two or three;<br>And sundry grips and divers nips<br> Made things extremely free.<br>Profane expressions filled the air<br> (Disgraceful how some people swear!);<br>A livelier time than Pat had there<br> You would not wish to see!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A great hooray! the ladies, they<br> Declared it was a plot,<br>Beyond a doubt, to drive them out.<br> But leave? No, they would not;<br>They swore that they would clear the coast,<br> Or else the guard should lose his post;<br>But women always are a most<br> Unreasonable lot!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Pat's return to Ingleburn<br> The shell-fish were in tow,<br>And things were gay on Castlereagh<br> Preparing for the Show.<br>For every township in the scrub<br>That owns two churches and a pub<br>Must run a Show and draw a sub.<br> From Goldsbrough, Mort and Co.!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now shell-fish are extremely rare<br> Upon the Castlereagh,<br>And Ingleburn galoots don't yearn<br> For lobster or for cray.<br>Lobsters indeed they'd never seen,<br>And never might, had it not been<br>For Pat Ahearne, and he was mean<br> Enough to make them pay!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On lucre bent he hired a tent<br> And made a rise with ease.<br>'Twas at the Show, of course, you know<br> Where side-shows always please.<br>The shell-fish they were placed inside,<br>And Pat stood by the door and cried:<br>&quot;Walk in and see Australia's Pride -<br> The monster Sydney fleas!&quot;<br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Thomas+Goodge">William Thomas Goodge</a><div class=q>
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 Upon the Castlereagh,
Was flush of cash and very &quot;flash&quot;
 As shearer-persons say.
At Yankee grab his luck was cool,
At loo he'd lately scooped the pool;
He'd simply smashed the two-up school -
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