Publication: Melbourne Herald
Date: 27 March 1929
I've just devised a splendid joke, That makes me rock with laughter, Against the City Council folk Who lately have been after Precautionary measures to Combat the influenza, And talk of that they mean to do, In one long, loud cadenza. They're planning this and that, with firm Resolve, nor spare expenses. So that no influenzal germ May creep thro' their defences. And, if the fell disease should poke A nose within, they'll swot it. But here's the cream of all the joke: They've bissed the buzz. I've godd id.