Meditation Concerning Whale

Oil (To the Editor.)

Sir—One of our opulent wags, not affected by “consols of the East,” wrote this gem whilst giving a square meal to a down-and-out copra bug:— In days of old, so we are told, a big whale swallowed Jonah, And for a day hid him away from his beloved Donah.

But in our time the oily whale a dif ferent caper cuts: Instead of swallowing Jonahs he swal lows coconuts.

No more we style the coconut “Consol of the East”— That title has been sadly damned by this aquatic beast.

No eye prophetic saw the fate which would the nut assail, And certainly none ever dreamed a knockout by a whale.

The moral is, don’t cultivate ingredi ents for a dish Which runs the risk of a being knocked out by an oily fish. J.H.. Fiji.