Little Tommy was asked tlie difference between prose and poetry. He pondered for a while, and then said: “There was a young man named Rees, who went into the sea up to his ankles.” “That’s prose,” ho said. “But if the water had been a few inches higher it would have, boon poetry.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12887, 13 June 1936, Page 10
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