Shaun’s Patch

Southland Times, Issue 21887, 13 December 1932, Page 6

Shaun’s Patch

A little dmmdm now axd then Is relished by the men. —Hudlbras.

Included in the Taranaki innings against South Auckland: Stan c Giddy b Baddeley 13 Giddy st Hampton b Barnett 0 Looks as if a chap playing on both sides lived up to his name. ♦ ♦ * And South Auckland had a batsman who made 14, but who must have kept up the bowlers’ hearts. You see, he was always Going. When he was out. Going? Going gone! * * * A reduction in the number of people killed by motor-cars in the United States has led to an inquiry to determine whether: (a) Drivers are more considerate. (b) Pedestrians are more agile. (c) People are tougher. * Five years ago Russia set out to do certain things. So did we. ♦ ♦ ♦ * Abbe Dimnet says: “What the United States needs is an American Gandhi. Well, no one can get the shirt off his back.* # » » educational aids. Give a sentence containing the word “signify”: “I cad signify hadn’t a cod id by head I’d do id.” * * An educational journal in Paris has been asking a number of children to imagine that they are candidates for the Chamber of Deputies and to draw up suitable Appeals to the electorate. These are some of the results:— If you vote for me you will receive twenty francs. I promise that there shall be no more wars or revolutions, and no more taxes to pay. I will reduce the cost of goods and abolish Customs duties. I will organize splendid fetes. Everyone shall drink wines and liqueurs. If you vote for me, I will vote for you. , , There will be no more unemployed and no more poor people. Everyone will have electricity, and there will be no more war. » » * » FAMOUS BONES. Os. Saw . Jaw . Dry. d Beef, Fish . Wish . Dice. aparte. us. Moa . Skeletons.

JOHN BULLET’S SOLILOQUY. To pay or not to pay—that is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the purse to suffer The stings and grabbings of outrageous fortune Or to fold our arms against the Lords of Dollars And by opposing bilk them? Default—to say “Nomore” and by default to say we end The heartache and the rude financial shocks That we are heir to —’tis a consumma- * tion Devoutly to be wished. Not pay—default— Default! Perchance be shamed. Ay, there’s the rub; For in default discredit, too, may come Because we’ve shuffled off the golden coil. That gives us pause. There’s the respect That we’ve protected through so long life: For who would bear these War Debts all the time, t Knowing them wrong, the Yankee s contumely, The pangs of oppressed trade, the slumped exchange, The insolence of Borah and the spurns That patient Britain of the U.S. takes, When he himself might his recovery make With repudiation. Who would War Debts bear, To grunt and sweat under the golden yoke But that the dread of something postdefault — The unrecovered prestige, from whose loss No nation can return—puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have That fly to others that we know not of. Thus conscience doth make payers of us all And thus the pallid cry Repudiation Is covered o’er with, the firm shout of Pay, . And enterprises of great wit and cunning With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action—Soft you now! The Yankees suffer! 80, in worse depression Be commonsense remembered.