ONE OF THE SENSIBLE SORT

New Zealand Tablet, 27 August 1908, Page 37

ONE OF THE SENSIBLE SORT

She can" peel and boil potatoes, Make a salad of tomatoes,' But she doesn't know a Latin noun from Greek And so well she cooks a chicken That your appetite 'twould quicken, - : But she can not tell what's- modern from antique:

She knows how to set a table And make order out of Babel,But she 'doesn't know Euripides from Kant. Once at making jam I caught- her, A real expert must have taught her, - But she can not tell true eloquence from rant. She has quite a firm conviction She ought only to read fiction, . And she doesn't care for science not a bit; She likes a plot that thickens, And she's very fond of Dickens, From Copperfield to Martin Chuzzlewit.

She can make her hats and dresses Till a fellow fair confesses That there's not another maiden half so sweet; She's immersed in home completely, Where she keeps all things so neatly, But from Browning not a line can she repeat. (Thank goodness !)

Well, in fact, she's just a maiden That whatever she's arrayed in Makes her look just like the heroine of a play ; Twould be foolish to have tarried, So to-morrow we'll be married, And I'm certain I shall ne'er regret the day.