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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 11 (February 1, 1937)

If Those Lips Could Only Speak

If Those Lips Could Only Speak.

It is the privilege of parents to imagine that they bring up their children. Perhaps they really know better, but foster the fiction to save their souls from damnation and despair. Have you never shrunk before the candid contempt in baby's blue orbs? Has your polluted past never reared up and socked you one in the Conscience when the searchlights of inspired Innocence have illuminated the solitary-cells of your personal penitentiary? Have you never said to yourself, when, cringing before the contemptuous contemplation of a three-months' morsel, “If those lips could only speak?” Have you not thought what a good thing it is that the lisping lip is sealed until such time as pristine prescience is dulled by the perpetual demands of the midriff? Else what a crop of red left-ears there'd be amongst those present.