KNOWING THE WORST.
■' (By Walt Mason).
Every morning John, the granger, looked with sadness on his corn, for it was in deadly danger, by the hot winds seared and torn. Through the weary weeks he d tilled it only nightfall made him stop—hoping by bis toil to build it into something like a crop. It was perishing for yrater, and the heavens leaked no more; every day was fiercer, hotter than the day that went before. And it seemed to John, the granger, as he watched his corn crop go, that henceforth he’d be a stranger to all things but grief and woe. But when once suspense was ended, and he knew' the crop was gone, “Next year’s crop may well be splendid, and you bank on that,” said John, "“Two bad years don’t come together —that would be too fierce, gadsooks! So next year we’ll have such weather as we read about in hooks. Thus the buoyant, hopeful mortal rises when the worst is known to surprise you with a chortle when you’re looking for a groan-
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1635, 9 November 1916, Page 4
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178KNOWING THE WORST. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1635, 9 November 1916, Page 4
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