A SCENE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVII, Issue 50, 20 December 1910, Page 6

A SCENE.

The following amusing skit appears in j the Christchurch 'Evening News': — j Dr Findlay, after the labors of the session, takes a turn by the sea shore, and muses the while: ! "A bitter, bitter time has passed in*deed, And yet a goodly crop of statutes there to show-s Soon will I reach the top of my ambition, Which is to regulate the life of every man By statute from the cradle to the grave. No man will dare to live except by rule." Chants while dancing steadily: "Policemen will worry him, * Blue papers will hurry him, Inspectors will shurry him To glorify my name." Recollects himself, and continues: "Doubly dear to me is eacli and every act, J The apple of mine eye. Likewise the sections, Sub-sections too. Alone I made them all. I At making laws I am the champion of the world. So will my name go down in later times With Johnson, Artist and all the rest of them. Solon, Lycurgus, the pair I've outclassed

quite. As for ancient Roman poor old Justin His light I've clean snuffed out." (Enter his familiar spirits, Willy, the Wowser and Roddy the Socialist.) Dr If.: "What cheer, my trusty henchmen ?" Willy, trembling with excitement: "Ah, good, my liege, great news have I to tell. At a township foitv miles from Hokitika, A fairish town—although not marked upon the map, The Mothers' Union passed a resolution As one mind approving of your Gaming Bill." »

Dr F., blushing deeply and smiling in spite of himself: "It cannot be; yet thou darest deceive

mo not My faithful Willy? Too bad, too bad 'twould be. But to find one's efforts thus appreciated Is like balm to a wounded heart, like a threepenny piece Found in a waistcoat pocket long discarded. I will see thee later, Reddy, I am too joyed To bear thee now. Hast news?"

Reddy: "Ay, ay, my liege, the people murmur deep. And look too near the secrets of thy state." Dr F.: ha! we'll fix them later on. We'll tie these grumbling tongues with libel laws."