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Rumbles From Mumbles
INTRODUCTION
The verses contained herein are all original and were written to commemorate some particular event. Readers are therefore particularly requested to exercise a certain amount of imagination, and to be good enough to excuse the rough and ready manner in which some of the verses have been strung together. You will find the advertisements written in an attractive, entertaining style, and the whole is presented as a humorous, rather than a literary effort.
Will those friends whose names I have taken in vain, please accept my apologies and thanks? Despite many imperfections, I trust you will find sufficient humour in the pages which follow, to turn your mind awhile from care and trouble, and cause you to say "HA! HA! HA!"
Harry F. Maslen
The Mumbles Train - A Breakdown.
The Mumbles Train - A Breakdown.
The Mumbles Train had broken down,
As it did in the days of Noah ;
The engine had scattered its twiddlebits
All about the floor.
They 'phoned to Mr. Evan John,
Who said "Don't make a fuss;
Just stop there for a month or two,
Till I send down a 'Bus.
The breakdown gang assembled fast,
They went to Mr. Kemp,
For needles and cotton (there's nothing forgotten),
For string, and elastic and hemp.
"Stand back, stand back," a brave girl cried,
"If the boiler bursts there's danger,"
She ran off the water, in an hour and a quarter,
"Three cheers for Mabel Grainger!"
They had spanners and glue-pots and manicure sets,
And paint pots from bright red to yella;
Whoever was slacking, he soon had a whacking
With Miss Kings' new Sunday umbrella.
With pickaxes, shovels, and chewing-gum,
And paper that would stick;
With smiles of joy and pots of gloy
Came Mr. Sidney Brick.
Mr. D. W. James, with a bucket of paste,
For sticking up bills understand;
Said "Oh! this is good," as beside it he stood,
With a slap-dashing brush in his hand.
They tied up the engine with ribbon and string,
And used-up some nice safety pins;
They stuck on the paper with paste and with gloy,
To cover up most of its sins.
The engine felt proud, and important to know
So many illustrious folk
Had put Humpty Dumpty together again,
And it blew off some nice lumps of coke.
They borrowed a bellows from George Ace's shop,
And soon got the engine to go;
But then Mr. Stacey got right in the way see,
And held up the train with his toe.
Then Ruby and Connie, both handsome and bonny
Came dancing and skipping along;
They both looked content, for Henry had sent,
From Portsmouth, a rope new and strong.
Then Bob Millard said "Look here use your head,
Let's pull it along with this rope";
And just as 'twas startin', along came Jim Martin,
And greased the wheels over with soap.
At last they got off, with a grunt and a cough,
They counted all hands to agree 'um;
And now they've decided to give it away
To the folk at the British Museum.
Train at Southend
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