Morning Noises.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 April 1914, Page 2

Morning Noises.

(By Walt Mason.)

At early morn one's sleep seems best, and man would get all kinds of rest, if silence would obtain; but at the first faint peep of day (lie world wakes up and gets too .4-ay, and beds arc all in vain. In I own the milkman comes along *nd makes a racket with his gong, while drowsy people swear: and •vaggons rattle through the streets, m<l newsboys shriek the morning sheets, and noise is everywhere. And so the man who vain would ■:leep just hands out curses large and deep, and sighs: "I'll leave ihe (own: I'll seek the quiet coun--1 ryside, where* man, when tired and heavy-eyed, can hold some dumber down." So to some bos'cy dell he speeds, convinced 'twill answer all his needs, and with a farmer boards; and in the morn, 'vhen dawn is grey, lie hears the hoot and grunt and bray of all the barnyard hordes. The cows are bawling passing well, the friskv ■nokes rear up and veil, the pork-μ-s voice their woe: the goats, the Miinea hens, the geese .<ret busv •md disturb the peace, the bua , - house roosters cr.ow. And in tho ■hiwninG , , cold and bleak, tljp vintim swears in French and ft reek, in CraoKe and low Butch: he ■iwears in dead and living tongues, Mid, thouffh he wears out both his binsrs. it doesn't help him much.