POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Intimation: "Repeating" yesterday should have been "repealing." - Eegarding those shilling bomb-sights of Doolittle's—we'll bet a dollar they were. # # * Perhaps it would be just as well for any army leaders to retain their confidence until the battle is won—or safely on the way. ♦ * f ■■♦'.. GOING TOO FAR. No one will deny that it is up to us to do our best to entertain visitors, but it is overdoing it to put on A rattling good earthquake lor. them. f ERIN-GO-BRAGH. BUMP. Dear Flage,—Apropos the night; of June 24 the following old Cornish saying comes to mind: "From ghoulies and ghosties And longJeggity beasties And things that go bump in the night Good Lord, deliver us." W.G.A. ♦ ♦ # v TRAM SEATS. Peu«!flage,—ln the tram the other day I noticed two ladies get on'at th« D.I.C. One said: "Oh! I see they have taken some of the seats out of the trams." "Yes," replied the other, "I read something the other day about j somebody picking up the seats and taking them away." BEST STORY. Hitler and Chamberlain talking. Hitler said: "I want Ireland." Chamberlain said: "Well, it's a little difficult, but I think it might be arranged." And arranged it. Hitler said he wanted to stay «ix months in Buckingham Palace. Chamberlain saidx "Well, it's a little difficult, but I think it might be arranged/ And arranged it. Hitler said he wai dissatisfied with the state of German footbalL They weren't winning any world game*, to short, he wanted Bryh \ Jones.: Chamberlain stood up and said: "Hitler, this means war." _ ; MERRYWEATHER. ,♦ ♦ ♦ GLOOM-HOUNDS. When gloom-hounds on your way appear, , Pray lend them an unwilling ear; Or loudly scoff at all they fear,That this, or that, might happen here. Use language that will simply sear, And wish them on another sphere. DRUM. # ' * .. ft TUIS. Ever since last Thursday several tuis have, to our surprise, dashed into our patch of kowhais and ngaios in the morning, and plunged about in other foliage not;so far away during the afternoon. \ They do not chortle and screech as is their wont, suggesting they are a trifle upset. On Sunday the three occasionally left the leaves to hang, one below the other, on the branches of the tall cherry tree, saying nothing, then suddenly sweeping into a big ngaio, where small birds followed them. Blackbirds also swung about, backward and - forward, indicating curiosity, but not exactly happiness. Apparently the tuis, like the rest of us, were still affected by the earthquake, which still ■" hung in the air strangely.