Say It In Verse

NZ Truth, Issue 1186, 23 August 1928, Page 6

Say It In Verse

P^ MAN was gaoled the other day for , having punted with his 'employer's money. • : The boss consumes a fat cigar And reads the racing calmly through And reckons what his winnings are— • Poor simple soul! ; If he b,ut knew! He never dreams of having done A hundred quid on Dimpled Knee Arid yet, too true!— at ten to one, He's been and lost the lot— 4hrouah 1 .; i me. _„ ■ ■■ ■• ...... It wrings- ray heart to hear him say . With joyful :tone\ and .smiling- eye, "I've won a thousand cold to-day!" ■I know that' he has not— and why: He backed the roughest starter there, For wads and wa.ds, and did his dough—- ' And yet he laughs without a care, Because I haven't told him ssto t /