CHEAP GRUB.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19999, 15 July 1920, Page 6

CHEAP GRUB.

(By WALT MASON. To every pian that’s good for man attention J. am giving; jl m eating fish —a eheapjohn dish—to boat the cost of living. Ido not- like the wall-eved pike, GlO sucker or -the grayling, yet it I balked at them, or knocked, in duty .1 d be failing. For wo must; try, since costs are high, to make the blamed things lower, and jolt those dears, the profiteer, and make their graft work slower- And so 1 eat the catfish meat that makes my system sicken, and chow old perch as tough as lurch, that doesn’t taste like chicken. Fhe halibut that some poor nut shipped from the briny ocean, I swallow fried, and my inside is filled with sad emotion. Oh, all the fish that go ucrfiwish through yen. and lako and river, I’d gladly swap for mutton chop or bacon flanked by liver. I cat my whale, and though I’m pale, I’m steadfast in my _ duty; mv purpose high to eat or die is sure a thing of beauty. 1 chew my shark and men remark Pm thus a great blow landing; if all would cat ike me, cheap moat, the cost woukl lose its standing. I empty creels ot lish iinu eels and store them in my body, but how I sigh for beef-steak pm. and porterhouses gaudy I