A SIMPLE FIVER.

NZ Truth, Issue 67, 29 September 1906, Page 6

A SIMPLE FIVER.

A fiver to the giddy youth— . A simple fiver seems m truth ; Some bric-a-brac or household god, A day with hounds on hired quad, A box of weeds to end m ash, Another suit to cut a dash, A little dinner, followed by. A game where other! fivers fly. • Fivers thus spent are .passed and gone — . . /"' ' Nothing accomplished, nothing' done. ••■■ '• ■• ■''■. '. -y-ii* ■;-■-' ■■.-.. A fiver to the careworn wife~ . A glimpse' bf hope, a means of life, To win the husband, back to health ; To work, their only means of wealth, To pav -th<? rent, .to fill. the store, To keep starvation's wolf from doqn: New Shoes for Tommy's chilblaine-d feet,' <■ . • ..-■■'-. ■ , ■ A . dress for J<enny, plain and neat. Fivers thus spent for aye survive, Make husband,- wife, " and children thrive. ,