Since We got the Mortgage Paid

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 February 1916, Page 3

Since We got the Mortgage Paid

Wo iC dulio il lui. ul &Ci liuiJ l Jut **ji a-livin' hand to mouth, \Vc'vc droviUvd Luu ivcl u eathei, ami we've worried over drought, i'or tile things kept draw in' int'rest, whether crops ivuiv good or bad, An' raisin' much of iiule, seemed it swallowed all wo had. 'I'lie women folk wen; savin' and' there ■ain't* a bit oi doubt But that things they really needed Jot.; of times they done without. So we're breuthin' soniewnat easy, an' we're feelin' kss afraid Oi Providence'* wurkin's, since we got the mortgage paid. I wish I'd kept a record oi the things that mortgage ate. Ir principal an' int'rosT, from begin ilin' down to dale! — a hundred dozen ehiekens. likely Jowl •with yellow legs, A thousand pounds of but,lor an' twelr-.s I hundred dozen ogg.i, I t Some four or live good wheat, crops | an' .it lea.il one ern|> of corn. I An' oats an' rye- it sw.i I low oil in >j.j lifetime, siires you're born, Besides the -work an' -worry, ere ■ appetiie w.v stayed! So we're feeling more contented sin v we got the mortgage paid.. We've reached the point. T reckon, when we've got a right to ivst, An' loaf around, an' visit, wear oui go-to-mooi in ' best---Negleetin' nothiii' urgem. understand. about the pin But simply slnv. in' down a "hit an' re>tin' in the race! To time I'll get Hie windmill I've been •wantin'. T suppose: The girls can have their organ, and "we'll all we-.r better "close." I' 1 or we've always pulled together, while we saved, an' scrimped aa' prayed, An' it seems there's more to work for sincc we got the mortgri :c paid. - R. F. Greene in the "Agriculturist" - (America).