THE TELEPHONE GIRL.
following “Ode to the Telephone Girl” was sent to the Wellington Post by Aliss E. M. Spavin:— ‘ She hears all the gossip, she hears all the news; tifie knows wlio is happy, and who has the blues; Bhe knows all our sorrows, she knows all our joys, ’ / She knows every girl who is chasing the boys; She knows all our troubles, she knows all our strife, She knows every man who is false to his wife: She knows every g:rl who is out with a boy She know.i every excuse you fellows employ; In fact, there’s a secret ’neath each saucy curl Of that quiet, demure-looking telephone girl. If the telephone girl would tell half she knows She. would turn all our friends into bitterest foes; She would sot up a breeze that would soon be a gale, Engulf us in trouble, and iand some in gaol, If she let- go her story, which, gaining in forceWould cause half our wives to sue for divorce She- would get ail our churches mixed up m a fight, And turn all our days into sorrowing nights; In fact, she would put the whole town in a stew If she told a tenth part of the things she knew. Now. doesn’t it set your head in a whirl. When you think what you owe to the telephone girl ?
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 August 1924, Page 15
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228THE TELEPHONE GIRL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 August 1924, Page 15
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