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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[satirical poem]
The Rangitikei Advocate describes a certain journalistic candidate as a « political tomtit. » The candidate, addressing the electors, described himself as a « duck. » How shall we classify this rara avis?
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The Advocate, of Rangitikei,
Is fond of Larks, and rather cheeky.
To style a candidate a Tomtit
(A bird in length some 2½-inch)
What wicked animus could prompt it?
(We'll call the editor a Chaff-finch!)
If it be true, the feathered stranger
Should find Hawk's Bay a place of danger.
But when we hear his own account, we find
That he's a fowl of quite another kind.
Why should the papers run amuck
Against « that graceful bird, the Duck? »
In vain with epithets they pound him—
The Gulls and Geese are rallying round him,
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Of victory the flock are dreaming,
And fill the air with noisy screaming.
Our avine friends will find full surely
They cackle somewhat prematurely!