“WHO’S A BONZER?”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17183, 29 October 1923, Page 1

“WHO’S A BONZER?”

BY SINBAD. Oh. my heart goes with the Doctor on his trip to Gay Paree, *3 be tells about it in bis letters home; for in his new-found opinion he is firm as firm can be that in France is found the nicest place to roam. First towards the Channel Islands did the Doctor take his way. and the people there received him with delight, seeking ever his opinions on the problems of the day, for they know that Thacker’s views are always right. Then, arriving at St Malo. he the waterfront espied, with the varied vessels moored along the quay. ‘‘This is something like a seaport! ’ he ecstatically cried; ‘‘this is what in Christchurch 1 would like to see!” Then lie swiftly travelled onward, and with interest one reads how the farmers of the country till the soil; how the farmer from his barley every morning pulls the weeds, lest the tares the harvest’s symmetry should spoil. In the fields the cow’s are tethered, that they may not over eat; but the farmers are not dairymen alone, for some, bolder than the others, crop extensively in wheat —quite a quarter of an acre has been grown. Thus, by progress full of triumph has the Doc to Paris come, and be finds the famous city not too slow ;

and J’m willing now to wager half a dollar to a thrum that lie's yelling. “ Who’s a bonder? Clenicn-