“DAME RUMOUR”
SOME POINTED COMMENT
RUMOUR-MONGERS CRITICISED
Here is a nippy verse by an overseas critic of rumour-mongers:— Absolute knowledge I have none, but my niece’s washerwoman’s son Heard a policeman on his beat say
to a labourer on the street That he had a letter last Written in the finest Greek, From a Chinese coolie in Timbucktoo, Who said the niggers in Cuba knew Of a coloured man in a Texan town Who got it from a circus clown, That a man in the Klondike heard the "news •
From a gang of South American
Jews, Who heard of a society female rake Whose mother-in-law will undertake To prove that her husband’s sister
knows, As stated in a printed prose, That she had a son who has a friend Who knows when the war is going to end! \
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3261, 10 May 1943, Page 5
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138“DAME RUMOUR” Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3261, 10 May 1943, Page 5
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