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The Spotted Heifers

Mr Jeremiah

Owned a pair of spotted

These he sold for two pounds

To Mr Robert Raymond

Who reared them in the lucerne

Owned by Mr Martin Maddox,

And sold them, when they grew to cows,

To Mr Donald David Dowse.

A grazier,

Mr Egbert Innes,

Bought them then for twenty guineas,

Milked the cows, and sold the

To Mr Stephen Evan Silk.

Who rents a butter

From Mr Laurence Lampard-Lee.

Here, once a week, come for his

The grocer,

Mr Roland Rutter,

Who keeps a shop in Sunny

Next door to Mr Peter Peat.

He every afternoon at

Sent his fair daughter,

Lucy Loo,

To Mr Rutter's shop to

Such things as were not priced too high,

Especially a shilling

Of "Fuller's Food for Folk Too Thin."This food was bought for Lucy Loo -A girl of charming manners,

Was much too pale and much too

To be a very pleasant sight.

When Lucy Loo beheld the

Stocked by Mr Roland Rutter,

She said, "I'll have a pound of that."She had it, and thenceforth grew fat.

We now we go back to Mr Jeffers,

Who sold the pair of spotted heifers.

He had a son,

James Edgar John,

A handsome lad to gaze upon,

Who had now reached that time of

When young men feel they need a wife;

But no young girl about the

Exactly had the kind of

That seemed to suit James Edgar John -A saddening thing to think upon,

For he grew sad and sick of

Because he could not find a wife.

One day young James was passing by(A look of sorrow in his eye)The shop of Mr Roland Rutter,

When Lucy Loo came out with butter.

At once James Edgar John said,

Is just the girl for me!  She's fat."He offered her his heart and

And prospects of his father's land.

The Reverend Saul Sylvester

Performed the simple marriage rite.

The happy couple went their way,

And lived and loved unto this day.

Events cannot be far foreseen;

And all ths joy might not have

If Mr Jeremiah

Had kept his pair of spotted heifers.

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C J Dennis

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938) was an Australian poet known for his h…

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