SUPERFLOUS WORDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1558, 1 June 1916, Page 4

SUPERFLOUS WORDS.

(By Walt - Mason.)

Bill Jinks can't say, ‘’lt‘s a pleasant Jay/’ in just that. many words ; ho has to talk clear round the (dock, till he scares away the birds. He’ll go ’way hack to the almanac of: the year when Adam died, to lind a, day that was bright; and gay like the one that’s about to slide. He’ll talk nine hours to describe the showers that fell on the 9th of June, and to prove to you that all rains are due to the changes of the moon. He’ll talk three weeks, fill his jawbone creaks, and his larynx slips a. cog, to show that sleet will destroy all the wheat, that snow is hut frozen fog. Now, you and I, as we teeter by, can say, “It’s a pleasant morn,” and we will not stop to discuss the crop, the pumpkins, and oats and corn. But old Bill Jinks, lie’s full of kinks, and he simply can’t he brief, and his longue must clack till the welkins crack, and he causes lots of grief. It grieves Bill Jinks that the whole world shrinks with pain from his dance and song, and he wonders why all the people shy whenever he comes along.