Dreamland

Levin Daily Chronicle, 26 April 1917, Page 3

Dreamland

(By Malt Wilson in Manawatu Tim as.) This hymn is patriotic for I sing a land quixotic whose entliusisast-'C souls .'ove their country like the dicken., and my pulse fair dickum quickens as my chant of -homage rolls. For a war broke out cue morning, all the armchair prophets scorning, and it raged like—well, for years, and the deeds the business legions did throughout these happy regions fill my eyes with proud hot tears. First the farmer went in splendour on a patriotic bender ,in a mood of sacrifice; loudly he was heard to utter "For my cheese and golden butter, I'll take half the pre-war price." Where it used to cost a shilling. to take sixpence he was willinsr, and the sheepman followed fast; for they halved the price of mutton, as they did not care a 'button for mere cash till war Ava.s past. Then the merchants and the traders showed they were no pirate raiders for they hated all war gains, and they lowered all their prices, saying profiteer devices gave them strong disgustful pains. But the owners of the papers, cut the most obliging capers as they chopped their prices down, so of the sheets that cost a penny you can now go purchase any for a modest half a brown. But the publicans and sinners also ran amongst the winners on the patriotic score; they dropped pits of beer to tuppence, gin and whiskey fell to truppence, and that's how we won the war!