TONGUE-TWISTERS
• The tongue-twisting lyric craze persists ■with unabated fury in London. Here is the newest sample for" those who have'an afternoon off: — * There's Phyllis, Phil, and Fanny filling shells and. fixing fuses. Bales and boxes filled with bombs and bullets by the ton,■Willie's skill in drilling shows that Will is always willing; He can drill a shell, can Willie, though he never fired a gun. Our Phil excels at filling 6hells, pa plays "shell out" with ease; While with pnde her bosom swells, poor mother sits and shells—the peas. So, with Will, Phil, Phyllis, Father, Tan, * and Mother, you 11 admit That in sending shells to soldiers we'll have done our little bit.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 10
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113TONGUE-TWISTERS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 10
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