BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 494, 1 July 1932, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections.

(By ONE OF THE BOYS). Apropos of the suggestion made by I Bob Semple that the Wellington j zoo should be closed, and the animals j be fed to the lion to save expense, a correspondent sends the following! soliloquy by the lion:— 1 sits awhile and I never smile, And I never want to play, But I sits and croaks, and the best of jokes Have I, which is to say— I’m the kangaroo, and the elephant, too. And the swans and the Polar bear, j My tummy is full of Highland bull, i And Simian skin and hair. I never grins, for I knows my sins. And I’m feeling mighty blue. So I sits and frets, and my great j regret’s I didn’t eat Robert, too. My time has come, and if I'm glum. You needn’t wonder why. For I’m all bereft, and there’s no- ! one left To eat me when I die. Jones (dismally) : “ Yes, 1 had a! balance in the bank a little while ago, but since I have been engaged it has all gone.” Friend: “ Expen- ; sive game, eh? Never mind! Love makes the world go round, you ■ know.” “Perhaps; but I never! thought it would go round fast I enough to make me lose my balance.” i It was Jane's day off, and she was j spending it with the maid from the | house next door. “My mistress is I so curious,” she told the girl. “ All ! mistresses are.” “ How curious is j yours?’’ “ Well.” said Jane. “ yester* : day I was looking through the kev- ; hole into her room, and she was look i ing through the keyhole at me.”