WHERE THEY NEVER SWEAR
The Japanese—even in the army and navy—never swear! The fact naturally strikes the Yankee as peculiar, and the following is from a recent issue of an American paper:— Does the hammer never fall upon a thumb In Japan? Do insistent bill collectors never come In Japan? When they think they’ve got- downstairs, And the bottom’s far away, If the Jap man never swears, Oh, I wonder what they say In Japan? Do the people never chance to step on tacks In Japan? Do they never get their fingers caught -n cracks In Japan? When they don new clothes, and find At the office, far away, That they’ve left their keys behind, Oh, I wonder what they say In Japan?
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 74 (Supplement)
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123WHERE THEY NEVER SWEAR New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 74 (Supplement)
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