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COMING ROUND THE BEND

with

Denis

Glover

" PLEASE behave like a gentleman even if you are at home." JE makes & lot of nfoney as a land agent. The smell of the earth is in his nostrils, provided the earth is for sale. He deprecates war, because the H-bomb is likely to ruin real estate values. MEAT is usually ' over-cooked, with | all the love in the world. Or is it that men are usually over-late to eat it? "THOSE who follow sport too closely are letting others run their lives for | them. | LIKE the man who never knows the time. He says he is hurrying towards the grave without an expensive wristwatch to tell him how fast. | EAL crooks are quickly found out. But people with good intentions can go on forever doihg damage with a smile. | Now with everything in the world so crazy, so worrying, who on earth would go into a shop and buy ‘puzzles? | ABBIT shooting: when rabbits can shoot back it will be a man’s sport. O many people have talked to me for their own good. HAVE to thank my typewriter: it wrote "A fool and his money are soon partied." | THOUGHT he spoke brilliantly, and cannot forgive the woman who said, disloyally, "He uses more words than a woman making a cup of tea." YING is a serious matter: it takes a lifetime to get round to it, T’S a mercy writers of epigrams aren’t required to take out a second-hand dealer's licence. /

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 15

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249

COMING ROUND THE BEND New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 15

COMING ROUND THE BEND New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 15

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