COMICAL REFLECTIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, 24 May 1910, Page 3

COMICAL REFLECTIONS.

There are many things we do not understand, And it's funny how so much we like to know; . ;'; ' And it's funny what remains > When, we've filled our hungry brains, -And ; fit's, funny what a lot we must „ _ . forego. „ '* ] t It is funny that' the notion "to ac^ :• i •" quire" \- • t 'Occupies the largest chamber of the mind ; And by scheming or by toil, | We are heaping up the spoil ; And it's funny that we'll leave it all behind. It is funny when a "bloke" who owes you coin Has a tendency to miss you in the street ; i Though you follow him around, He is seldom to be found, And by just the merest accident you meet. It is funny when you're hit by Cupid's dart,_ l And you fail to bring the maiden to the point; For a rival steps between, Who you wish had never been: It is funny when your nose is out of joint. l It is funny that a steamer or a ship, When the wharf and waving crowd are out of sight, By the manner it behaves, As it plunges through, the waves, Has a tendency to spoil your appetite. It is funny when you hear a parson swear As he tumbles o'er a bucket in the dark ; You had placed the bucket there Just to hear the good man swear: It seemed funny, and you did it for a lark. It is funny how so little makes us laugh, And convulsing laughter makes us hold our sides; It is funny how we smile When we're shamming all the while, And it's funny that the moon can make the tides. With the monoplanes and things that are to be, 'Twill be funny when we're soaring through the sky; It is funny how we live, And the things we don't forgive; And it's funny that an onion makes you cry. There are many funny things I might relate (Nothing funny in a comet or a star) — Yes, I mifi;ht relate forever ('Twould be nothing very clever) Of the funny thing ther'H be, that were, and are. J. G. J. "The Divil's Glen." New Waltz, ''Golden Shadows."— This new waltz is having an extraordinary sale; 1000 copies sold since March Ist. Snd 2s Id in stamps and we will post to any address. 2. Dixon and Co.