A LIMERICK.
Sir,-I was moved to try my hand at solving your difficulty in finding a last line to your limerick, and here is the result, which I might add I "rattled off" as soon as I read the piece: "And finally laid the poor Boss lo." I know you will say that it won’t do because it does not rhyme with Oslo. But, Mr. Editor, I rather think that the majority of folk pronounce Oslo like this: Oz-lo. Others say Oss-lo. My solution would rhyme with the last. Another ending, Quisling himself might finish it thus: "Why do you go Zo-zlo" or better still, "Blitz, Blast, Why do you go so-slo?"
YORKSHIRE
LASS
(Palmerston North).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 4
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116A LIMERICK. New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 131, 26 December 1941, Page 4
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