AN AUTUMN SCANDAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 1 (Supplement)

AN AUTUMN SCANDAL.

0, Autumn, gay, haa come to towj, Wearing a petticoat of brown; The shoulder straps are golden threads And interlaced with wondrous reds. She's not immodest, I have found, She wears it trailing on the ground. And yet she's gay, for she does wear I The robins in her russet hair. The blackbird's worse than all the rest, He boldly perches on her breast. And sometimes when she leaves the town Her petticoat is upside down, But it's the truant wind, I know. Who comes to toss her high and low. She reels and dances all the day, Then puts lier gny attire away, And Just before the sun has fled She goes most virtuously to bed. She's gay and straggling, O, no doubt, When frollicking the lanes about; \nd vet she's modest, for I found She wears her dresses to the ground. —b. C. LUSLUY IWUSE. I C&risfcchurcli, )