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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 1 (May 1, 1933)

“Ambition.”

“Ambition.”

I'm going to be a butcher,
And drive a horse and cart;
I'll have long strings of sausages,
And bits of bullock's heart.
I'll give the stray dogs each a bone,
Not “shoo!” them all away;
I'll give the poor just lots of meat,
And will not let them pay.
I'll let boys hold my horse, while I
Go round from door to door;
I'll have a big striped apron on—
What could a boy want more?
I'll knock at each door, and cry “Butcher!”
As loudly as ever I can.
Yes, that's what I'll be when I'm grown up,
A great big butcher man!

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