A LOCAL FABLE.
To .the Editor. [ Some children returning from school one fine day, Found a giant asleep, And to him they did say: '•Snail! snail! put out your horns, Or else we will tread' on your poor tender corns." Then the giant replied from the side of >the hill, | "Dear children, I feel so sore and so ill— j I carry this post—and the postscript—; alas! And the males and the females of every class. I must journey full eighty miles in the day, And frighten the "gee-gees" just as I may. Yet "STOP" is not written along my whole track, Or "LOOK OUT FOR THE ENGINE" is chalked on my back. And no need —for the cows and the horses decreed My puffings should terrify never one steed. When they hear me they merely remark, with a smile, "Here comes poor old Billy, who sleeps half his time." —Moral.— Now you puffing old Billy Repose in the night, And hurry the mails, Or you and I fi«'ht. Make a start sharp at nine, And not after two. Then I'll do all I o:n, And die fighting for you. —Stale News.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 56, 15 June 1910, Page 3
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192A LOCAL FABLE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 56, 15 June 1910, Page 3
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