THE APPLE'S LAMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 8 September 1926, Page 2

THE APPLE'S LAMENT

Control of fruit, by “The Man About Town” in the Auckland Star.

A disobedient apple gave his family tree the slip, His parents saw him do it, and it gave his pa the pip ; Most respectable “Delicious," and llm juice was in his eve. Tie was proud of his old family, grafted on a Norl.lieni Spy.

So the rosy cheeked old fellow wrote to Mr Gordon Coates, And here’s the sum and substance of the briefer of his notes : If you control the kauri. Prime Minister so strong, Why not a cheeky apple who is trying to' go wrong?

It really gave me Codlin to see such goings Oil, Ami ma’s got brown rot of the heart, the way we’re sat upon ; The .Stunners sneer up in their tree, it bites me to llie core, T’ll he a windfall soon. I fear. Delicious nevermore.

So shake it up, dear sir, t beg, delay control no more; My bonny boy will lie return and join the family corps? Tf you do this, skin, core and pip, I'm with you, woe or weal; Be warned old bean, beware you tread not on an apple's peel.