GETTING UP

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11661, 27 October 1923, Page 14

GETTING UP

Though many men have made their mark By rising daily with the lark, 'Tis not a plan I recommend: The practico no one can defend, Bor Man to emulate the beast Is quite absurd, to say the least. But if you Must, then try to find. A bird of some more torpid kind. Content in slumber to recline Till half-past eight, or even nine. Then let a 6tealthy menial creep Within the chamber where you sleep. In silence draw tho blind half up. And at your elbow place a cup Of tea, with buttered bread to suit, Or, if you should prefer it, fruit. But if the latter fowl you choose, Take care what kind of fruit you use! I recollect, in early life, I loved our local surgeon's wife: I ate an apple ev’ry day, To keep the doctor far away t Alas! he was a jealous man, And grew suspicious of my plan, He’d noticed several pips about When taking my appendix out (A circumstance that must arouse Suspicions in the blindest spouse), And, though I squared the thing some-

how, I always eat bananas now 1 —HARRY GRAHAM, in “Tho Graphic