RASTUS

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 8 September 1933, Page 2

RASTUS

A TALE OP AWIEE-HAIBED PUP There arc earthquakes, cataclysms, gales, Waterspouts, dynamite, slumps ■ in Home Bails, . . Bishops and divorce laws, cabbages, and kings, And-quite a lot of similarly agitating things; But there’s nothing that can shake the whole world up, ■' Like one wire-haired terrier pup. There are brick-bats, trousers, the carpets on the stairs, Old shoos, blotting paper, logs oi chairs, Lumps of coal, croquet balls; everybody’s feet, And quite a lot of other things that I wouldn’t eat; But there’s nothing that can shako the digestion up Of one little wire-haired terrier pup. There arc elephants, mastodons, lions iu their lairs, i Duchesses, burglars, grizzly bears, Introductions, editors, dinner at the Eitz, And quite a lot of things that frighten me into fits; But there’s nothing that can put the loa jt wind up One little wire-haired terrier pup. There mo good better girls, best girls, wives, Sunshine, credit notes, saving people’s lives, Inheriting a engagement rings, And quite a lot of fairly gratifying things; But there’s nothing that can stir your heart right up Like one little wire-haired terrier —A. B. Cox, in ‘Punch.’ *