THE MENAGERIE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1594, 5 August 1916, Page 4

THE MENAGERIE.

(By Wall; Ala son)

All living creatures scorn to throng - the road thnt 1 would tour si long, in my tin ehugmobile; t hey’ll leave their homes and travel far, to throw themselves beneath my cur, mid bust, a. costly wheel. All thorough lures, with mules mid gouts, mid sheep mid hens, mid eulves mid shouts, for evermore ure peeked; I just eollided with u cow —against her adamantine brow my radiator eruelcod. 'l’he cows will leave (he tender grass to block the road where I must pass, upon my road to town; the hogs will leave the sparkling swill to make a stand on yonder hill, mid turn me upside down. Anon I squash a, farmer’s hen, that surely wasn’t worth a yen, when it was in its prime; but how 1 hear the owner’s howl; “You killed my .rare imported fowl of pedigree sublime!” 1 jog along mid break the slats of dogs and ducks and geese and eats, and always when they die, the price goes up to beat the band; “they were the finest in the land,” 1 hear the owners cry. The way the farmers’ beasts run loose is certainly a great abuse, it is no more a joke; and if I travel west or east, at very corner there’s a beast that’s suffering to croak.