A TERRIBLE TALE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 139, 17 June 1911, Page 7

A TERRIBLE TALE.

Colpnel Bunker was <a boozer bold Who simply worshiped £fwhisky cold," And brandy, rum and beer and wine r All ;kinds, of.;, "nips?' he thought ■'■;■' -divined ::. " • :/ : '■.- '■ ■'. - '■■':' '-. :. ■-'

His friends to him had often said* "If you don J;fc stop, you'll soon be dead!" , , ■• But Bunker laughed and drank some' more, And more, and moref and more! I and MORE!!! Till one day in his bed at night Poor Bunker had an awful flight! His room was full of dreadful things That roared and barked and flapped their wings.

And elephants and tiger cats Were jumping round with snakes and

rats, Monkeys red, and^ monkeys blue, And Hippopotamuses, too!

But when he saw a purple cow! The Colonel to the Doc. said "Now, No more & drunkard will I be, Jus.t pass the SURATURA TEA ! In future when I say Kia Ora, I'lH pledge my pals in— SURATURA!