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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 215, 6 October 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

PLUM AGAIN

We follows in Flanders to-day The ration supply cannot slam, t'or with "'cats" that are almost O.K. Our skins we contentedly cram. One fly in the ointment, our one disappointment— i Plum Jam! I'm not a fastidious stickler For epicurean compote, 1 , Wire* should Maconoclue, Tickler, Pink. Cliivcrs. and brethren, devote To Tommy the ''plum,' which, ad libitum, Gets his go.at! There may br» some nebulous reason Why plum : s so painfully stablo, Perchance a slim strawberry season, With currant the same, -red and sabjp* And what a strange pass, that we *e er stH> a rasp- > Berry lab'el? But having <k-livered my soul With more or less obvious gaJf, I this ungenerous role — W>*# lit r>»ar. and my doggerel scrawl Is therefore de trop —what if we nad no Jaw At all!