Punch (95.1888)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [Octobeb 20, 1888.

AGRICULTURE'S LATEST ROLE.

(A Bucclic Ballad, with a Borrowed Refrain, Dedicated to Hie British Dairy Farmers' Association,)

Whebe are you going to, my pretty Maid ?"

{Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese .')
"I'm going a-milking, Sir; " she said;

(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese .')
" For times are bad, and the farm don't pay.
'Tis Pasture v. Arable, so men say,
If still I'd be prosperous this is the way.

(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese.')
"I'm tired of eom-growing that brings little
cash,

(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese.')

The old business of Ceres seems going to smash.

(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese .')
Free Trade and the Yankee have finished her
clean.

From furrow and sheaf there seems little to
glean,

From ploughed land to pasture I'm changing
the scene.

(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese.')

'' I hope you '11 allow I look fetching like this,
(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese .')

A Dairymaid's dress suits me sweetly, I wis.

(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese I)
Just twig my short petticoats, look at my pail!
The bards are all ready a Milkmaid to hail!
I mean making prettiness pay,—shall I fail P

(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese .')

" You've been to the Dairy Show, Sir, have
you not ?

(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese !)
Those churners competitive were a sweet lot.
(Butter, and eggs, and a pound of cheese.')