Delay

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 May 1914, Page 2

Delay

(JJy Walt Mason)

"Delays," said Dad, "are dangerous and apt to work much harm." 'Twas in the days when, grangerous, wo lived upon tho farm. So we were ahvays hurrying to get things done cftsuons, die plowing and the currying, the harvesting of prunes. We did our work kerwhoopingly, and gained tile silver buck, while other farmers droopingly complained of evil luck. When storms came up a-thundering we did not care a daru; they never caught us blundering—our hay was m the baru; when rivers rose amazin'ly, o'erllowing banks and bed, we viewed the blamed things brazenly - our wood was in the shed. The elements might clammily spread snow throughout the land, they could not catch our family without some coal on hand/" The les. sous learned thus youthfully have served me all my days, and T can. tell you truthfully that "I T p and Do It" pays. Delays are surely ruinous; let's do things on the jump, or Fate will soon be shooin' us toward the blawsted dump.