DINNER-TIME
Is dinner nearly readyT Is it very hot! Will dinner soon be dished up Out of the pot?
When we have had our dinner And washed up every pot, Then I will do my writing. Oh, I have SUCH a lot! —Original, by Joy Fichett, Paraparaumu (aged 10 years).
The great actor Edmund Kean once blundered with comic effect by transposing the words beard and nose in speaking the following lines in “Hamlet” : , “Who plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose?”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 292, 5 September 1931, Page 23
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90DINNER-TIME Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 292, 5 September 1931, Page 23
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