Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 2 (June 1, 1929.)

Tidal Waves and Brain-Waves

Tidal Waves and Brain-Waves.

Of course you recall how the king endeavoured to wriggle out of the bet by asserting that he was suffering from a slight attack of water on the brain following over-concentration on tides, and said he feared that the raising of his mind so constantly to a sea plane might derogatively affect foreign relations with his neighbours, the Finns. However, popular opinion being in favour of calling his majesty's bluff, he proceeded in his state homobile to the nearest marine sunspot, and—after commanding the lifesavers to stand by in case his tidal brain-wave should develop stringhalt or a vacuum in the symposium—he proceeded to think of all the anti-wet arguments he had ever read in the American press, and to project his most ultramarine thought bacilli at the selvedge of the North Sea. You know what happened, learned reader—how the North Sea cut him dead on the marine parade, and advanced steadily until the king contracted water on the knee and only escaped losing his crown and anchor in Davy Jones' locker by the timely intervention of the life guards, who reeled him in and wrung him out.