A Kitchen Poet.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1911, Page 4

A Kitchen Poet.

•T\K AWAY FROM STKAK AND OXfOXS." Trio editor of the Manawatu T>ait' Times has been a.skod to publish t.he following lines hv a dry hash artist. win!.*--; 1 covering letter si ales tnat 1.1 icy ••'will interest many a toiler in the kitchen" ■ r.\!)Kli Till'] ACT. [lave you heard the tidings glad? It's made the sweaters just as mad As folk at i'orirua. Kitchen slaves no lousier labour. Xighfc and day 'Mouses! the grease in stewy kit', hens: For small pay. Girl who serves yon wit.h your tucker Xow can go "With the waiter in high collar For a blow, To the Fsplanade or river. There to coo. Far away from steak and onions And the stew. And the cooks why they are mortals Talking loud. Won't thev try to ''cut a figure" At the pictures in tilie crow:! Hutcliers' meat shall lie forgotten : What a relief To breathe fresh air, to see the sun Instead of beef. What about our friends '.leparterl Lone; ago, When we had the cuprsc of sweating That we know. Will they guess our wrongs are righted---5-4(1 un reel at last. And their troubles are but bogies Of tlio paafc. So when it comes to vour time of? "0." To keep this law you must be wary So do not linger but straightwav go. And srives thanks to good old Carev. T.M. ■Valmerston, January 10.