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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review Capping Carnival 1920

Three Jolly Reporters

Three Jolly Reporters.

Three jolly reporters we be,
In a manner refreshing and free,
(Posing) With valour unswerving
The public we're serving,
And this is how it's come to be:
From our neat little porch near the door
We decided the issue of war,
page 27 And at an all-night session
We showed great discretion,
While two of us slept on the floor.

All:
Oh, many the dodges we know,
And much is the tact we must show;
Three jolly old scribblers,
We follow these quibblers
In the way we would like them to go.

2.
Members' faults we explain all away,
In a manner now grave and now gay,
Now, chasing some hobby
Into the wrong lobby,
He suddenly thought he would stray.
Neat phrases we oft introduce,
And we make all their grammar look spruce,
For in bad punctuation,
And enunciation,
Our Parliament here is the deuce.

All:
Grammatical slips we correct,
In a manner you'd scarcely suspect;
Three jolly reporters,
We teach the untaughters.
And a fee we disdain to collect.

3.
I'm a Hansard reporter all day,
And I follow each member alway;
But. alas! emendations
Are made by rotations
To what he had meant he'd say.
But a staff of good printers employed,
I half of the year keep annoyed,
And in castle and hovel
You'll find that fine novel,
And there's it's extremely enjoyed.

All:
Oh, much is the fiction we write;
H. C. Wells we beat right out of sight;
Three jolly old jotters,
Inveterate spotters,
And safer—when we are not tight.