A GARDEN OF VERSE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 237, 5 October 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

A GARDEN OF VERSE

LIMERICK. (Frofn Nola Bonner. Hall Avenue. Otahuhu: ace 13.) There was an old lady of Ride, To eat fifty kpples she tried. But, 'tis sadly lamented. Those apples ferinented. And now She's got eider inside. IN DISGRACE. (Prom Audrey Spencer. 35. Lombard Street, Palmers ton North). You cried when mother combed your hair, You wouldn't eat your tea; You spilt your cocoa down the chair And threw a spoon at me. You're sorry now it's half-jftlst five, As sorry a« can be, For there's a car stopped ifi the drive. But I've ho sympathy, Wbeii Daddy isks if you've been pood And you must shake your head, Then in a corner you'll be stood Until it's time "for bed. !~1 Ck <2 imKllUr tltA »•«

He's climbing up the stairs so high, You're looking vfcry grave. Perhaps you're thinking ai you sigh "To-mdrrow I'll behavs!"'"

PENNIES TO SPENI3. (By Pat Davits. No. 1. Procraitfre Otahuhu.) When I hare a penny. I never know why It s go hard tti make up my inind what to buy; I flatten my nose on the window ad say: *Xow, what kiiiid 6f sweets shall I sample to-day? The 'Bull'e-Eyes' are nice, but tW taste very strong, I love 'Choc'late Creams,' but they never last long; There are 'Aniseed Balls' sold at twenty a penny, And 'Caramels' sweet, bnt yOu don't get so many As when you bur 'Acid Drop?,' snsarr — «our A bagful of those lasts for more than an hour, If slicked very gently. Yes! P'raps .I wili try How many of them mr brown pennv will but-."