Shaun’s Patch

Southland Times, Issue 21715, 30 May 1932, Page 8

Shaun’s Patch

A little notiaenso now and than In relished by the widest mon; —Hudlbras.

Dark weather bringing up the storms The day of football mars, And last of all a Black cloud comes And overwhelms the Stars. EDUCATIONAL AIDS. Give a sentence containing the word “castor”: “The man who says caster is wrong has a castor something in his eye.” » * * * It’s castor oil right. I wonder how we will get on if the Ottawa delegation takes the wrong boat and lands in Los Angeles? Of course, we should be crowing ’Cos one team we’ve sent to the rowing, While also the country’s allowing A large team ■ away for some rowing. • 4» * • A report of the Farmers’ Union says that Mr Hargest concluded his speech “by saying that sooner or later they would see the end of the depression.” The outrageous optimist. And Mr McT wants to “get among them with a pruning hook”! No matter how young a pruner maybe He’s always full of wrinkles. One of the great things about this world that there is always a man who can do a job better than the man who’s doing it. * ♦ ♦ * A cable from London says that the Coal Bill has been issued. Why didn’t they wait for the first of the month? Mr Lang assures his folks in passin’ That he’s the victim of a rude assassin, But if he thinks that someone used a dapper, Of credit he was quite a good sandbagger. WORKING WITH SPIRIT. Tliis from The Bulletin (Sydney): Booze played its part in the carrying of Lang’s Robbery of Mortgagee’s Bill. Certain Leg. Councillors, who voted for the evil thing, were as full as an egg; one reeled in with a bottle of rum sticking out of his pocket. A rum business evidently. LINES TO D. AND B. Of man’s dc’.erioration wc have moaned, And wonder if again he’ll make the grade; On Saturday men’s hockey is postponed And all the female hockey games are played! Be careful of a woman who gets mixed up in scandals. It is better to get the details straight. Li!tie scandals Day by day Make the risque Journals pay. • ♦ * * WHY NOT PICK NICK? What blowing of bugles and what eclat As we go asailin'* to Ottawa, To talk with our cousins and deference Pay to Imperial Preference, To talk about duties and note a Brand new specific, the quota, As well as some excellent dinners '.~ith the latest by good story spinners. There’s George who will surely be showing Pome new ways of doing his “no-ing,” ’ lile Coates will "et into the running With methods in “getting-things-done-ing” ... And Stewart, a’ Dunedin townie, To show that he realiy is downie. A Good fellow, Puckish and faery, To watch the affairs of the dairy, And David, though speakers be gluttons, To keep the crew un to their muttons. But stop! If the country’s loquacious We’ll start people thinking and gracious! How many more chaps they could quick pick To join in the Ottawa picnic!