If Summer Don't

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 31, 1 August 1923, Page 11

If Summer Don't

A BOOK THAT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH. Parodies .as a. rule -are. vulgar things, but Barry Pain's buriesqu© on Hutchinson's, much boomed "If .Winter Comes," is ludieious enough to be thoroughly amusing. Honestly (dare. I say it?) I found Mark. Sabre very isrovoking,- and his Mabel very tiresome*— at times, I' felt -that v a good shaking would' have done* theiu both good!. In "If Summer- ~ Don't" the' hero, wqrks .in a pickle and jam factor?-. His is the literary side-of ihe business., he writefc all the advertise•raents, gamming them with quotations, 'from the classics, and in his spare •time produces elegant" little brochures "shch as "The Romance of the Raspberry," etc. These ar* e bound in lilac morocco. Ha cycles to work every. morn„g, practicing Coueism en route "Further from Mabel, further from -Mabel. Every day, _-every. : way,. I [jam getting further from Mabel." [Whenever he tumbles off ti:s bike, he drives in a little wooden peg to mark the spot. -"High Jinks,'' and "I,'pw Links,". become Ellen and ' Kate *Mbrso, alias "Dot" and "Dssh;" -Lots of-people will have"read.and iaughed ■oVt . Barry .'Pain's "Mrs. Murphy''l ■ j&or-es, and certainly nearly eve rytody has read "If Winter Comes." 3uch .Avj.ll certainly enjoy- his laughable skit, "If Summer Don't."