FRYING PAN’S THEOLOGY  
The Bulletin, 16 December 1893

 

Scene: On Monara.
    Dramatis Personae:
Shock-headed blackfellow,
    Boy (on a pony).
Snowflakes are falling
    So gentle and slow, 
Youngster says, "Frying Pan,
    What makes it snow?"
Frying Pan confident
    Makes the reply -
"Shake ‘em 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 feller God!
He drive his bullock dray,
    Then thunder go,
He shake His flour bag -
    Tumble down snow!"