THE RULING PASSION
Two women leaned over the backyard fence (The sapio old fence) as the sun went down. While sea eh told the other, in confidence, The scandals slic’d gather’d about the town. For women must gossip, or they can’t sleep; They think that secrets weren’t made -u keep; So they lean on the fence in the gloaming.
Two women leaned over the garden gate In the evening glow as the sun went down, They wondered what made their husbands so late, v And they sneered at the minister’s wife's new gown. For w•> urn delight ill a friendly chat, "Without it their lives would be stale and fiat; So they lean on the gale in the gloaming.
Two husbands came home from their golfing game (From the office .they said) as the sun went down, Both ready and eager to hear the same . Sweet so in da Is their wives had hunted down, For men, though they work, love gossip too — And that’s why their wives seek something new. As they meet and talk in the gloammg.. ~,,.. .. ... .. .. , ~
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2139, 14 March 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)
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179THE RULING PASSION Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2139, 14 March 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)
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