[Editor: This untitled advertisement, which includes a poem, was published in The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (Geelong, Vic.), 20 August 1855.]
[Suppose I like to go to work]
Six Weeks After Date, if all’s well, I intend commencing business as PASTRY-COOK and CONFECTIONER, near the Crown Hotel, La Trobe Terrace.
Suppose I like to go to work,
Pray what is that to you?
Then mind yourself, I know you’ll find
Quite enough to do.
C. BEAN, from Sebastopol,
August 4th, 1855.
Source:
The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (Geelong, Vic.), 20 August 1855, p. 3, column 2
Also published in:
The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (Geelong, Vic.), 22 August 1855, p. 1, column 7
The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer (Geelong, Vic.), 24 August 1855, p. 1, column 7
Editor’s notes:
pray = to ask, request; to ask for assistance, benefit, or favour; to ask or implore, especially in a humble or polite manner (e.g. “Do not serve me so, I pray”; “I pray thee remember, I have done thee worthy service”; “show kindness, I pray thee”); in older times “pray” was used to accompany a polite request (similar in function to the phrase “I ask you kindly”), similar to how the word “please” is used in modern times (e.g. “pray, tell me why…”)
Sebastopol = a town in the Central Highlands of Victoria, located south of Ballarat; the area was previously called Bonshaw, but was renamed as Sebastopol, after Sevastopol in Crimea, a city which was beseiged during the Crimean War (1853-1856)
See: 1) “Sebastopol, Victoria”, Wikipedia
2) “Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)”, Wikipedia
3) “Sebastopol history”, Ballarat and District Genealogical Society
4) “Sebastopol Timeline: 1800’s” (archived), Ballarat and District Genealogical Society
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