Apologies to Ripling
Sir, — If you can write unto the papers Every kind of stupid bunk, And show, by your own mental capers, You're in a state of silly funk; If you can prophesy disasters. Always on a future day, And try to slay your Labour masters With ink, if by no other way; If you can magnify small errors, And mountains out of molehills seem to make. Fill with all kinds of fears and terrors The minds of Jack and Bill and Jake:
If you can lose your hear! when all about you Are keeping theirs, and blaming it on them, Can claim that no one seems to doubt you, As a propagandist —you’re a gem. C.P.H.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 9
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118Apologies to Ripling Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 9
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