COMING ROUND THE BEND
with
Denis
Glover
H, those dear old copybook maxims, those apophthegms dredged up from the mud-hard bottom of the ages, timebaked into the pancake platitudes of a thousand gummy grannies, pipe-puffed by the elders round many a council table, and finally pot-hooked to the boundary of the page by the laboriously literate. in the infant-classes of the world! They clinch all argument, they swing all votes. On a global scale, here’s the sort of thing-in fact, just like Coming Round the Bend: French: A well-fed cat fears mice in porridge. Italian: The breath of love is the garlic of ife. Spanish: No wine flows from empty bottles. Eskimo: A hole in the ice gives the seal of approval. Argentinian: Where there are girls, there are the gauchos. , Red Indian: Wah! Israeli: Dead sea fruit is better than a date in Damascus.
Norwegian: A clever sardine keeps a key in its mouth. American: A wise-guy likes his girl guy-wise. Ancient Chinese: The flower of the lotus feeds no silkworm, but the full moon is a meal in itself. Scottish: Many a mickle makes a muckle. English: A stitch in time obviates the ghastly necessity of looking for a needle in a hayrick. Australian: Long hops kill no kangaroos. Persian: A wise fire-eater takes water with his oil. Jordanian: Pray for rain and all you get is e. Finnish: A barque is worse than a bight. New Zealand: A dead horse pays no dividend. Egyptian: Tomorrow is when to love the English. Russian: When the vodka is in the novel is endless. Maori: The old man eel does not inhabit the branches\of the totara-no, ehoa! And su on. There can be no doubt about it-the earth is flat,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 802, 3 December 1954, Page 15
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290COMING ROUND THE BEND New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 802, 3 December 1954, Page 15
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