ITS FIRST VICTIM.
“ Halloa, Jinks! Why, I haven't seen you for several weeks! How is your health ?” “ Poorly ; every little thing-thong seems to affect me lately. Well, at any rate, you are looking like a king-kong.” " Peeling that way, except for a slight touch of spring fever.” " Yes, spring-sprong always affects me, too ; makes my Head ring-roug.” •* VVliat in thnnuer is the matter with you old man—u»e way you’ve got of talking V” "Nothing-thong,” said Jinks, making a swinging movement ot his arm throush the empty air, as his friend backed away in amazement and alarm. •• I hear that you have become a great devotee to tue fashionable fad of table tennis.” *' Yes,” he said wildly, “ I like to have my tiiug-flong and enjoy the banjo sing-song oi the game of ping-pong at every racket’s swing-swong, while the celluloid sphere is on the vving-wong—l know that game’s the thing-thong ’ Gently the keepers from the asylum led him «iway to a padded cell, the first victim of the omnipresent game of ping-pong.
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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 117, 26 September 1902, Page 5
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171ITS FIRST VICTIM. Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 117, 26 September 1902, Page 5
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