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FRYING PAN'S THEOLOGY by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON

First Line: SCENE: ON MONARO
Last Line: TUMBLE DOWN SNOW!'
Subject(s): PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

SCENE: On Monaro.
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Shock-headed blackfellow,
Boy (on a pony).

Snowflakes are falling
Gentle and slow,
Youngster says, 'Frying Pan
What makes it snow?'

Frying Pan, confident,
Makes the reply --
'Shake 'im big flour bag
Up in the sky!'

'What! when there's miles of it?
Surely that's brag.
Who is there strong enough
Shake such a bag?'

'What parson tellin' you,
Ole Mister Dodd,
Tell you in Sunday-school?
Big pfeller God!

'Him drive 'im bullock dray,
Then thunder go;
Him shake 'im flour bag --
Tumble down snow!'



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