SPITEFUL GNOME
By GLORIA RAWLINSON " Yes," quoth the sly old gnome,
champing, I make the wallflowers shiver, I make the larkspurs quiver, I make the roses sneeze, I make the jasmine cough— Shake all their petals off I I make the poppies wheeze, I do it just to spite Those greedy little bees. Oh, yes, quite. Serve 'em right 1 Freebooters, they Have no tax to pay. Ho! Ho! Ho! Now you know Why petals fall— He! He! He! It's because of me, I do it all. I made the roses sneeze, Poppies wheeze, Wallflowers shiver, Larkspurs quiver, T made the jasmine cough, Shook all their petals off—- " Yes," said the champing gnome, " Now I am going home. ' But the bees flew and stung him, And the breeze caught and flung him Tnto a clump of gorse— Serve him right? Oh, yes, quite. Yes, of course.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)
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146SPITEFUL GNOME New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)
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