WHATS AND WHYS
* • v Why is coffee like an axe? Because it needs grinding before It is used. What is the centre of gravity? The letter V. What tree is double? The pear (pair). Why is a beehive like a spectator? Because it is a bee-holder (beholder).
WHEN THE OWLS GO HOUSE HUNTING
« 4 9 “To whit! to-whoo! To-whlt! 'to-whoo! Oh dear! oh dear! what shall ice do?” Cried Hob Drown Owl to Flit, his wife— \ “I was never so worried in all my life!
No house to let! oh, woe is me! Jn all this wood no hollow tree; That other owls haven’t already booked! “My dear," cried Flit, “you can’t have looked!
“I’ll go and sec what I can do!” And into the moonlight, off she flew. She hunted here; she hunted there; Then, just as she was in despair, She spied a holo in a hollow tree, And- she called to Bob with hoots of glee!
“To-whit! to-whoo! to-whit! to-whoo! Come and sec what Eve found for you! To-whit! to-whoo! to-whit! to-whoo! Coma and see what a good wife can do!” ! ' ■
Hob Drown Owl flitted to her side, He viewed that house with glowing pride! “To-whit! to-whoo! to-whit! to-whoo! This little house willcertainly do! To-whit! to-whool to-whit! to-whoo! What a cosy home for me and you!"
And-so they moved in straight away. They hide there quietly all tlfc day, Hut when night falls, you hear those
two, “To-whit! to-whoo! to-whit! to-whoo!" .—•Sent by “Oakleaves,” Masterton,
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 258, 28 July 1934, Page 23
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