PESTS
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WHIM-WHAM
"Rabbits gained the upper hand during the last war, and if they get away again the country will be eaten out."Stuart Dixon, at a meeting of the Waimate Farmers’ Union. A SINGLE Rabbit in a Hutch, Or spotted on a country Road, Does not seem capable of Behaviour as to incommode The human Species, or to make The Economic Structure shake; Pe bit yet Brer Rabbit, soft and small, And seemingly so innocent, Can ruin Pastures, roots and all, When he becomes a RegimentPresenting as he multiplies, A Menace of prodigious Size. UST so, I fancy you'll agree, A single Fascist would appear; One solitary Hitler, we Would have no Cause to hate or fear, (Though doubtless. we should find his habits Less captivating than the Rabbit's). i Sieve | Mischief’s when a single Will, With all its uncommitted Crimes, Its negligible Power for Iil, ‘Is multiplied a million Times, And Rank on Rank its Robots come All marching to that single Drum! $$$
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 160, 17 July 1942, Page 7
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165PESTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 160, 17 July 1942, Page 7
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