TONGUE-TWISTERS.
The recent competition in a Home paper for tongue-twisters proved very popular, and all sorts of lines and rhymes came through (says the editor). Old favourites in “Ru’glen’s iums” and “the soo’s snoot” were numerous, but all over the level of the entries was fairly good. Here are a few of the brighter efforts received: — A tutor who tooted the lute tried to tutor two tooters to toot; Said the two to the tutor: Is it easier to toot than to tutor two tooters to toot? A flea in its flight found a fly in a flue; to flit from the flue they decided to do. Said the fly “flea fly,” said the flea “fly floe,” so they flew through a flqw in the flue. Teresa’s three trim slim thin thrifty sisters sit sipping Susan’s soothing syrup on the shelly sea-shore. If short scene shifters shift short scenes should certain surreptitious shiftless scene shifters be shifted for short scene shifters? . A quaint, cryptic effort received was: ‘ 1 Tongue-twisters—lying. ’ ’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 September 1924, Page 6
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169TONGUE-TWISTERS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 September 1924, Page 6
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