Shaun's Patch

Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 8

Shaun's Patch

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Coming out of Rugby Park, The Southland lover dismal grew, As looking in his sweetheart’s eyes He groaned: “They’re also blue. If there is trouble about choosing a Democrat candidate, Mr Davy realizes how difficult it is to stop everybody from carrying the party banner, but if the National Party has a similar experience he recognizes the unmistakable evidence of dissension. * • * * EDUCATIONAL AIDS. Give a sentence containing “haggis”: “The old haggis a witch.” A race between cyclist and trotter is not new to Christchurch. Early in this century a cyclist named Jones defeated Stonewall Jackson, a well-known trotter, on the saucer track of Lancaster Park. • * * * * If a woman tells you she has’a model husband, don’t believe her until you’ve had the chance to have a look at his shins. The cynic remarked that those who follovf the straight and narrow path have to be narrow. ♦ * * « When Tennyson asked that there should be no moaning at the bar when he put out to sea he was really asking that there should be a barring of the moan. Globe-trotters: Goldfish. * * * ♦ One of the questions the curious American asks in the hereafter is: “Why did they give Peter the gate?” .» * * * Gangsters have as a proverb: Don’t count your pickin’s before the lawyer's paid. * * * » Phrenology is one of the beliefs that you can reach a man’s pocket through his head. * * * * The optimist who said he could see good in anything was asked if he could when he first went into a movie show. * * * ♦ A LOVER EXPLAINS. When first my love I confessed My dear, I was humble and meek, But quickly it came to my mind That though my affection was burning What you really required, my dear, Wasn’t love but a goodly technique And when you beheld me last night Kissing Flo—l’d just started learning.