Asking Favors

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 September 1916, Page 3

Asking Favors

(By WALT -MA.SOX.) Friendship always wavers, cuuscts to be sweet, if you're asking iavours everytime ue meet. WJien I sit a-basking by luv cottage door, neighbours come up asking favors till I'm sore. "I would like to borrow your alfalfa stack : early on the morrow 1 will send it. back." ''Over at my shanty there is much to do; will you lend your auntie for a week or two P" "Hard times ntake.s me holler. [ am short of tin ; call you .spare a dollar, till my ship comes in?'' ''May the gods defend me. for I'm stricken hard, <uul f wish you'd lend me- seven pounds of lard. 'M have slipped with sorrow more than other men. and I'd like to borrow your old, sitting hen." "Will you kindly lend me sundry hoes and rakes?" So they come and bone me till my bosom aches. Horroweits are chronic when they owe begin, and I need a tonic for my cheer-up irrin. .Borrowing's -a habit that will make your friend scamper like a rabbit when his way you wend. Borrowing will make you lonesome all your days, for your friends will shake j you and denounce your ways. ,