Wishes.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 May 1914, Page 2

Wishes.

(By Walt. Mason;

jpf"* 5- If wishes were but horses the W* ' beggar folk would ride, and there'd be free divorces for people Ipf-,- badly -tied. We'd all be packing moneys till spavined in the |p.V - -knees, if wishes were but ponies m* "• and roubles grew on trees. "I wish,?' says little "I wish SST./ I had a gun; I'd shoot till I wias silly, and have all kinds of fun." ~ And then he starts awishing he ft" \ had a patent pole, so he could do I -•'* some fishing down by the swim|>V - ming hole. And he might have I f in plenty, the things he wants so | * hard, if he would work like twenf ty young beavers in the yard. I / His father says, "There's many a chore, my lad,-you shirk; and I'd pay you a penny for every day - you work." Thus Willie nrght be t raking in lots of doughy iny doors; • by saving all he's making for ten or'leven years, He'd have his ; "gun and-tackle, from all incunibranee free; and he might sing and U" " cackle* in perfect ecstacy. 'Tis thus "with every, grown-up, as 'tis | with every boy; tHe truth we'd I# better own up, that work alone _ brings joy. We think we'd chirp J like robins, and strangers be to pain, it wishes were but and money fell like Tain J but Ifs£ grief would then enmesH us and ' - haunt "us through the years; for > things are only precious that cost us toil and tears. flArt ii