LIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 200, 28 September 1900, Page 1

LIMES.

(By Hmter Murdoch.)

The following clever and amusing lines recently appeared in the Hawke'a Bay Herald, suggested by a lecture given by theHev. Father Kennedy, on miasmitic plagues:— Dkab Father Kexxedt,— Fray say what remedy Is there for miasmitic plagues of which yon tell! Bore listening to yon is enough to make ns ma laving in fc coleny with mosquitoes fell, I think that some apology la doe from entomology Tor thus confirming all our scientific fears; And I should not wonder Even if yon underrated all the evil done by 4 musketers,' In climes malarious. They give ns various Diseases which we could do well without. Jim magnify proboscis; I enlarge diagnosis Of symptoms which well have without a doubt. Suppose a'germ' (A scientific term For embryo elephant to sucking flea) Should mankind bite, What ills then might Ensue to those who should thus bitten be. Unless pachydermatous, They scratchydermatous Would after the infliction of the bite become. ■ Their speech they'd lose tee, And their friends bemuse too By changing speech for the mosquito's hum. Sappose a ' musketer' Bite a fellow creetnr Whose hair is' auburn,' i.&, fiery red, And then, alacki A maid attack, Her black hair goes, and 'carrots' come instead. Suppose a thief should bitten be While standing in the dock, by some fierce Who then attacks the Judge (Don't think it fudge) But in such case it is my firm belief Despite his robe and wig, That Judge would straight turn prig, And fay to pick the pocket of the thief. » * » * Nothing is sacred to mosquitoes fell. Nothing too dignified for them to handle, Why, they might e'en, the sober truth to tell, » Attack a Bishop, and thus cause a scandal. L As thus: mßuppose a' skeetur' chanced to bite I A ballet gill while dancing of a night, (A shameless minx, whose high kicks were therage) And then perchance, by some unlucky fate A Bishop grave and good inoculate Why then His Lordship filled with terpsichorean rage 1 Would don a ballet dress, and mount the ' stage. Hid ' Hell's' and 'Totties,' dignity forget- < ting. Dance the can-can with kicks and pirouetting! * * * # These are but some of the ills which I forsee In store for us and our posterity, Butwhaf s the remedy X It seems to me We might defy mosquito, eke, and fleas, ifell of us drank whiskey, I Twonld but make tu frisky, Bat give our insect enemies ' D.T.'