Since we got the Mortgage Paid.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 63, 3 January 1908, Page 3

Since we got the Mortgage Paid.

We've done a lot of scrimpin' an* f-livin* hand-to-mouth, We've dreaded too wet weather an' we've worried over drouth, thing kept drawin' int'rest, whether crops were good or bad, AnY raisin' much or little, seemed it swallowed all we had. The women folks were savin" an' there ain't a bit of doubt But that things they really heeded lots of times they done without. So we're breathin' somewhat easy, an' *v we're feelin' less afraid Of Providence's workin's, since we got the mortgage paid. I wish I'd kept a record, qf the things tlwt mortgage ate, fo "jprmcipal an' infrest, from beginning down to date— A hundred dozen chickens, likely fowl with yellow legs, A thousand pounds of butter an twelve hundred dozen eggs, Some four or five good wheat crops, an' at least one crop of corn, An' oats, an' rye—it swallowed in its lifetime, sure's you're born, Besides the work an' worry, ere its appetite was stayed. So we're feelin' more contented, since we got the mortgage paid. We've reached the point, I reckon, where we've got a right to rest, An' loaf around, an'visit, wear pur to-meetin' best— ■■-.."■'"'"U Neglectm: nothin! urgent, understand, But snnply dow » a b| *» an - In time lnfget%ehwlndmill I've been ffteSl^B 1 onjan, an' * Tfe« aTlweap feettef clothes, FerweVealways pulled together, while we saved an' scrimped an' prayed, An'it seems there's more to work tor since we got the mortgage paid.