Sailing Thorn Down

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 September 1916, Page 3

Sailing Thorn Down

(BY WA I.if II AS OX),

T eie's tro.il-le In store for the gent who never salts down a red -cent, who looks upon cash the veriest trash, fo-. - rool'sfi extrraviagance meant. , &irK*o money comes easy tc-dav he thm.hs 'twill be always that way. and he bums up the scads with the milk-kin-j; farl.s and warbles a madrigal gay. His do'lar.s are drawn when they are due: and rather thin, salt down a few, he throws them, with jest, at the lobin redbrea-s;«. with rioteuis hulla!?ah o. 1 look down the scurrying years-for I'm the d:>lant of seers, and the spendthrift descry when hi- youth, is gc:v by, end o-bjert cf pity and tears. I see him P",reding the street en weary and iinghorev feet, r.-be-gsiing for di - cs frr th"

snk" of o'd time.-, t'j buy him sine r,-;vu-"kraut to caL I see him abawVmod and sick, his pillow a \lornek. of brick, and tin- pooler co;vp-> Ijy with .1 rul mixed ryo and swats liim fo ' luck with a .'-tick. T rep him when dvin<r: lio groans. but his anguish for nothing atones: and they envt liim ,'uvav in the dawn, fold and. gray; to tho olice who-o they burr cheap bones. Don't burp mi your nvnoy. my friend: don't «f|iiandei' or fcolishl.v lend; though yon sav it m <lros« and roaret not' its loss, it's a comfort -md in the end.