POOR WILLIAM’S LOT IS VERY HARD
BY SINBAD. The prisoner of Doom is sad, and frantically tears his hair, a birthday recently he had, and Little Willie wasn't there. He chatted the authorities: “I’ve long passed three score years and ten, and how my spirit it would please to see my loving son again. Though times just now quite hard I've found, I'm justified, you must agree, when now my birthday’s coming round, in turning on a little spree. I’ve laid in jars of wine galore, the feast more jovial to make, and candles very near four score will decorate the birthday cake. ’Twill be a day of homely joy, though I’ve but plain and simple fare, so send the word to Willie boy. that hither he should now repair." So Willie heard the news with glee, he, too, had found conditions bad, “ I’m certainly in luck" said he. “ for now I’ll get free eats from Dad." # lie rushed to pack his gladstone bag, but then he heard the trip was barred, when birthday parties strike a snag, the Kaiser’s lot is surely hard. _
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17759, 1 February 1926, Page 1
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