OLD STUFF.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 6 September 1913, Page 9

OLD STUFF.

If I go to see the play, Of the story I am certain; Promptly it gets under way With the lifting of the curtain. Builded all that's said and done On the ancient reciDe— 'Tis the same old Two In One: A and B in love with C. If I read the latest book, There's the mossy situation;; One may confidently look For the trite triangulation. Old as time, but ever new, Seemingly this tale of Three— Same old yarn of One and Two: A and C in love with B. If I cast my eyes around, Far and near and middle distance, Still the formula is found In our every-day existence. Everywhere I look' I see— Fact or fiction, life or play— Still the little game of three: B and C in love with A. While the ancient law fulfils, Myriad moons shall wane and wax. Jack must have his pair of JilJs, Jill must have her pair of Jacks. —Bert Leston Taylor, in the Chicago Tribune.