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(BY PERIPATETIC "1"
This world, we're told, is full of fools and, roughly, every minute Another one is born to swell the crowd already in it.
Some may escape the cap and bells, through force of cireum.sinare, But as a rule the fate of most rests in the lap of chance, While some are chosen by the Gods to be the working tools, That shape the lives and fortunes of some other little fools.
The bells rang merrily one day at Slocome-in-the-Wold, To celebrate the tidings that the vicar's little fold Had just increased its flock by two (both boys and doing well). Right lustily (with beer in view) each ringer rang his bell. The vicar, who could really see no cause for jubilation, Accepted both his "gifts" with truly Christian resignation.
And in the fold we leave the twain until they reach the age When we can send them strutting to the centre of the stage.
The elder one inclined towards the glamour of the city, And bravely faced the wolves that neither give nor ask for pity. In the fight to follow he resolved that he would not be beaten But stick his nose well in the trough-to eat, and not be eaten, "This fortune's fool became the tool to ease the longer purses,
Nor sneezed he at the short ones (heeded not the widow's curses). A rigger of the markets, he gave large sums to charity, And his tales of undiscovered mines were perfect gems of clarity.
A palatial country mansion (vide agent) came his way; The sun was shining brightly, and he made a lot of hay.
He spent his money royally; a cottage down at Brighton Was.oft the scene of what we'd really better throw no light on. It a bungalow up-river where the chorus "did its stuff," Our fully-fledged young hero was the last to cry "enough." Where bacchanalian revels on a moonlit velvet lawn, Would scandalise the neighbouring week-enders till the dawn. Accepted by society (he'd such a lot to burn.)
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But older men, and wiser, waited for the tide to turn. He weathered many storms upon Finance's risky sea, And recked not of the reckoning that waits for such as he, Till Nemesis decided (quite in keeping with her sex). One day in June she'd engineer a few financial wrecks. Then suddenly produced a hitherto unchartered rock, Which landed him with others in the shelter of the dock.
So disappears our meteoric hero from the scene
He may be seen again, some day, a star upon the screen. Comes Percy, twin the younger, darling of his mother's heart, To take the stage; let's see how he will play his humble part. Quite early be evinced decided leanings to the cloth, But knowledge of theology (much to his tutor's wrath) Was not his strongest suit, and so a Binty-hearted Pro. Dispelled his hope of gaiters, and poor Percy had to go.
But still he'd lots of knowledge of the things that really matter;
He patronised invariably the most exclusive batter. Immaculately clothed in garments built in Savile Row,
(A fellow "garbed in" reach me downs" he simply didn't know !).
His boots were never patched or soled, his hosiery recherché,
In short he was a veritable Brummel of & Percy.
He followed all the ritual Society demanded,
At tea the choicest cakes to all the dowagers he handed.
He never even glanced at girls without an introduction,
And mammas never had the slightest qualms anent abduction.
He didn't smoke or gamble, was the essence of sobriety,
In short, he was in every way a model of propriety.
"His papa said one morning: You'll excuse me if I mention
It's time that your career received a little more attention." The Church would have him not, the law he thought was much too
fagging,
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Although he didn't want his folks to think that he was bragging. He felt that certain places in the Empire needed propping.
IN AUSTRALIA.
HOISTING BANNED AT DARWIN.
CONSUL-GENERAL'S PROTEST.
Mr. F. T. Sung Chiness Consul- General in Australia has sent a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr. Scullin, protesting strongly against the refusal of the Civil Adminis- trator at Darwin to allow the Chinese residents to fly their na tional Bag.
In his letter Mr. Sung states that he has received a report from the Chinese residents at Darwin to the effect that on May 30 last, when the Chinese national flag waa hoisted at half mast in commemora tion of the heroes who died in the cause of the national revolution, the Civil Administrator interfered, and ordered the fag to be hauled down.
Only the Union Jack."
This drastic measure was ex plained as justifiable," says Mr. Sung's letter to Mr. Scallín, "on the grounds that, no matter what memorial day it may be, the only flag that is allowed to be flown is the Union Jack. My nationals are incensed with the Civil Administra- tor's unfriendly action, particular- ly since such a practice is unbeard of in any other country,
"The Chinese of Northern Aus- tralia are industrious and law. abiding people, and I feel that this action on the part of the Civil Administrator has unnecessarily and unwisely aroused their ill-feeling. On their behalf I wish to make a strong protest against this mea- sare, and would respectfully quest that no further interference of this kind be made with the Chinese,"
re-
Explaining the new flag of the Nationalist Government of China, a white sun in a blue sky in the corner and a red field, Mr. Sung said that, as in the French flag, the colours denoted red, liberty; blue, equality; and white, fratern- ity. In addition, the three colours also denoted the three principles of the people-nationalism, demo- eracy, and livelihood...
The white sun in the corner denotes that the Chinese Nations alist party is the centre of politi cal thought, as the sun is the centre of the planetary system. The rays, 12 in number, are equal.to the hours of the clock, and denote the etern- ity of the Chinese Nationalist party. The rays of the sun reach- liberty and equality.
His mother wept; his father hoped; his sisters said "Howing all parta impartially signify
topping!"
But much to everyone's surprise (his mamma said 'twould kill her)
Our Percy was gazetted as a budding little "pillar."
Fond mother gave him much advice and wept upon his neck,
And squeezed into bis willing band a surreptitious cheque.
She begged that he would always change" his clothes when they were
damp,
His father said:"My son, beware of women those that vamp."
And so he sailed away upon a P. & G. (first-class)
To a place that's not a tonusand miles away from Lyeemun Pass... He dreamed, en route, of carpets red laid down for his reception;
He little knew how far he'd plumbed the depths of self-deception.I
No welcoming oration marked his (overdné) arrival
In point of fact he gathered he was something adjectival!.
(A tennis-party busted by his inconsideration)"
An awful bore, this meeting coves who join the bally station!"
Undaunted yet, he gobbled up advice on, things de rigueur And dashed into the "social whirl (1) with unabated vigour. His dancer on the morning tram comformed in every way, To standards set by "livers" at the opening of the day, With face correctly elongated, bearing signs of grief, And shrinking from his neighbour (very possibly a thief?) With eyes, unseeing left or right, fixed in a rigid stare, He bore himself with credit in that human "frigidaire."
The matutinal gin and giner had no subtle charm,
He never touched a cocktail, and he viewed with great alarm The product of that gentleman who's always going strong, And after dinner stories Percy thought were very wrong. He didn't fear to hear the tales the sneering mountain moose Could tell about the exiles who go out upon the loose 1 (Walk warily, my paragon, you little guess the fall. Awaiting round the corner; Mistress Tate is due to call!)
It chanced the wind, in frolic mood, deposited one day" At our young hero's feet a hat bedecked with ribbon gay. A hasty dash and lo the prize was his, until a girl Appeared in chase, with one hand pressed upon a wayward curl And one outstretched to claim the errant hat; her eyen were brown, A dimpled smile, and end to say, Dan Cupid had him down. A little gasp, then, modestly, the lady murmured :-" Thanks !" - Unblushingly he stated that they'd met at Mrs. Blank's, But simply couldn't, for the moment, recollect her name, And, nothing loth, the maiden played this very ancient game. (You know the rules that guide it, and they followed 'em from Her people were away up North for just a month or so..
Poor Percy went to bed that night his mind in wild confusion," Forgot to shave next morning, and didn't take his Kruschen, He dallied at the office with a most important le, For all that he could see inside was just his lady's smile f A hectic month to follow, and they went it good and strong, He cabled home for money (parents wondered what was wrong!) Then bought expensive presents (didn't know the genus "digger ?), While cynical old stagers watched the play with scarce a nigger. He begged that when her folks returned that she would be his bride. She knew the end was well in sight, and so the maid replied -
But that's a bargain two must make and, darling, ere we strike it, I really must confess I think my husband wouldn't like it!"
That nobody could travel down the road to rain
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Now who shall get upon the judgment-stool And say which was, of two, the greater fool f [None of the persons or incidents aescribed above the characters and events being wholly aginaryED.J
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