Think Twice

Southland Times, Issue 21097, 31 May 1930, Page 23

Think Twice

1. —What four letters would frighten a thief? —0 I 0 U. 2. What can be dark but yet light? —Coal. - 3. What goes up a hill and yet never turns ? —Road. , n 4. —What word would you get if you spelt star backwards? —Rats. —Cousin Winnie Williams. 5. Why did the bluebell marigold? —Because the pansy aster. 6—What tune can be made out of banknotes? —For-tune. 7, —Why did the jam-roll? Because it saw a-bun-dance.

THE HEART OF LIGHT. Once on a cliff, I saw perfection happen. The full, gold moon was balanced in the sea Just as the red sun rested on the moor. The summer evening ripened and fell open; And people walking through the fruit’s rich core Were suddenly what they were meant to be, Quiet and happy, softly moving, lovely, With still, translucent faces and clear eyes, A . And all their heads and bodies brightly rimmed With delicate gold. So radiantly, so gravely, These people walked, so crowned, so golden-limbed, The cliff seemed like an edge of Paradise. —Winifred Welles.

DADDY-LONG-LEGS. Daddy-long-legs Sways and swings On his pretty, Crazy wings; While his feet, So light and small, Scarcely touch The ground at all. What a lot Of pairs of shoes Daddy-long-legs Has to use! But his little, Fairy soles Never, never Come to holes. Mrs Jenny Long-legs, too, Keeps her slippers Nice and new. Flying always In the air When she’s going Anywhere! —Elizabeth Fleming.