TONGUE TWISTERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2638, 27 September 1923, Page 1

TONGUE TWISTERS.

There are some twisters which it is quite impossible for the tongue to repeat rapidly wlliout a fall, such as:— Give Jim Giles’s gilt gig whip. Thrice six thick thistle sticks< thrust straight through the throbbing thrushes. A skunk jumped over a stump into a skunk hole. What sort of a noise annoys an oysterV A noisy noise annoys an oyster. The old cold scold sold a school coal-scuttle. When a twister a-twisting will twist him a twist. For twisting his twist he three limes does entwist. But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwineth untwialeth the twist. In twisting the twine that untwisteth between. He twirls with his twister the two in a twine. Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine He twist el h the twine lie had twined in twain. 'l’lie twain that in twining before in the twine, As twines were untwisted, lie now doth untwine; "L'wixt the twain intertwisting a twine more between He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.

Aii interesting experiment with whitebait was suggested by Air E. I'. Stead at a meeting of the Council of 1 lie North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. Air Stead expressed the opinion that one of the chief reasons for the great increase in the number of mosquitoes was the decrease of whitebait in the streams around Christchurch,' and he wondered whether the society would not be justified in getting some whitebait and turning them into the head waters of the Avon. Then next season they could try and got the Avon closed to whitebait netting and endeavour to get tlie fish back into the river again. If the experiment did nothing else it would provide food for the trout, but lie felt certain that around the Fendalton district the disappearance of the whitebait together with the diminution in the number of native birds, had been responsible for the number of mosquitoes about. It was decided to hold the matter over until the next meeting.