The Tuneful Liar.
— Strictly Germ-proof. — The antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup ■Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gambolled up; Thfey looked upon the Creature with a loathing undisguised! — It wasn't Disinfected} and it wasn't Sterilised. They 6aid it was a Microbe and a Hotbed of .Disease, They steamed it in. a vapour of a thousand odd degree? ; They froze it in a freezer fiat was cold as Banished Hope, And washed it in permanganate with caibolated soap. In sulfureted hydrogen they steeped its wiprglv ears; They trimmed its frisky whiskers with a pair of hard-boiled shears ; They donned theu* rubber mittens and they took it by tbe hand And 'lectcd it a member of the Fumigated Band. There's not a iliciococcus in the gaiclen where the}- play, They sw .m in pure ioc'o. r orm a dozen times a day , And eacli imbibes hi? rations frci'u a II j, c ie Cvp — The .bunny and tlie Bab} 1 aid i'.e Piotjliylacuc Pup — AVoinan's Home Cojii.-ai-.on.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 79
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168The Tuneful Liar. Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 79
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