COMING ROUND THE BEND
With
Denis
Glover
| ROGRESS sometimes seems to con- . sist of having the bones taken out of fish, wrapping up old pre-sliced bacon in ‘cellophane, and having to eat tough steak with a blunt silver-plated knife. es AM Te Heu Heu," said a noble native. What a wonderful yet dignified statement. WISH I could have made it up: "It doesn’t taste like pork," said a young wife’ dubiously. "No," said her friend, "it’s hogget." Pause. "But I always _thought a hogget was a little pig!" pps spectacled eyes looked like the headlights of a second-hand car. They shone ahead all right, but there , was no warrant of fitness behind them. PPARENTLY it is a fact that Rubinstein’s practising upset the Pekinese of the woman in the flat next door. "\WE could have went up and seen Bill," he said. After all, he might have said, "We had of oughter went up and seen Bill."
‘HE best conversation should be well-punctuated-with silence. F tailoring weren't so conservative there would be more pockets to hold licences. ONSIDERING the enthusiasm shown. by small boys for pointing sticks at each other and saying "Bang! Bang!" it is remarkable how little they like being called up and given real weapons to play with, NICOTINE on the fingers looks much worse in the morning than it did the evening before. DON’T want to change With the times, I want the times to change with me. "A RE there many in tonight?" "No, just a mediocre crowd."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 780, 2 July 1954, Page 14
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253COMING ROUND THE BEND New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 780, 2 July 1954, Page 14
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