MOTHER'S HAIRPINS
The doorbell broke the other day, Pop couldn't make it ring; Said he ? I'll have to get a man To fix the tiresome thing.' My mother said : ■ Oh, don't do that, Think what you would have to pay And then she took her hairpin out And fixed it right away.
We lost the back-door key last week, ’Twas when the door was locked Pop 'fumed around and said things till The neighbors were all shocked. Then ma she got a hairpin out An’ poked, an’ pretty quick She had the bolt turned in the lock —
The hairpin did the trick.
There’s nothing much that ma can’t do With hairpins, seems as like; One day she’ll fix pop’s busted watch And next will be my bike. If we wus poor I’ll bet that she Could make hard luck take wings, A-going round the city with , ' A hairpin fixing things.
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New Zealand Tablet, 31 August 1911, Page 1717
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150MOTHER'S HAIRPINS New Zealand Tablet, 31 August 1911, Page 1717
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