TAXED NO MORE

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 520, 6 April 1920, Page 3

TAXED NO MORE

Sidney Smith »'» ,e entered the ....-nth or covered the { i iiii<hi ( vcrvthing pleasant to Y >ar fee!, smell, taste; taxes I 6 'lie-lit,' warmth, and locomotiont ixesdr. <wt-rv thing in the earth and iC waters ' under the earth; on pverv l hing that comes from abroai i« 'rown at home, on raw maferial on the sauce that pampers S; appetite, the drug *iat ieTtoJes him to health, on the erminr which decorates the judge, and the that hangs the criminal, aw t Tb«" ™il» of the coffin; ami th. ribbons of the bride; at bed or a boarcl couchant or levant, wemu " On the conclusion of his ai tSe Smith draws a pathetic pictur of how "the dying Englishman pour K me.li.-lno, which hw ,»!(I. *. into i\ spoon which hft. pe 'l HO ne' cent., throws himseP |Ck tipon his chintz bed, which h* •i 99 ner cent., and expires Int< the arms of the apothecary, who h ini a UOO for the privilege o ♦1 ino him to death. His whol SoMMtV is then taxed 10 per cent, i • virtues are recalled in taxei nibble, and he is then his fathers to be taxed no more.