THE MORTGAGE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 480, 14 June 1890, Page 8

THE MORTGAGE.

W.e .|thrnug.lj spring and winter, ftlir'Ah Wimuer arid through full ; •p,nt the mprtiNure w >rked the hardest and (!u* sti‘}id:f*st of nil ; f f'} f } 1 Jt worked im'‘ nigl/ts" and Sundays ; if

worked eaeli holiday ; •. - - p , - if sett ed dmvp among r;s/n#:J ijt neypr wont away.

Whatever. wo kept front it seemed almost ns I vid .as the ft : Jt yntdied us «y,ejry impute, p.nd it ruled rs rifjlit and left. The runt and Might were with ns sometime* and soinetijnes n,nt ; The dark-ltr/nved scowling mortgagors forever on the.pp.oj. ;

•The weevil and the cut-worm they went as well ascaines cA\?Mls '■ >' The mortgage stayed for eyer eating hearty all tli.c same. * • •Jt nailed up every window stood guard at every «Joor, '•"'/! C. , .?. ■ ; .... : And: happiness and sunshine made tljeir home with us no. mo?e.

Then wjth fqilmg crops grid sickness we got stalled upon the grade, And there came a da He day on ps whep the interest wasn't paid ; And there came,a sharp foreclosure and I kind o’ lost my hold. And grew weary and disc#,imaged, anjdtlfe farpi was cheaply sold.

The children left nnd scattered, when they hardly yet were grown • My wife she pjned are’ peri-hed an’ I found myself alope, Whaf she died of was a an’ tfre doctor never knew ; Rut I.kn.ow she died of rpoftguge—jnsf as well pIJ wanted tq.

If to trace a hidden sorrow were within tile doctors’ art, They'd ha’ found a mortgage lying on that woman’s broken heart. Worm or beetle, drought or tejppest; on "a farmer’s lapd may fall, J3»t for- riiiimtjQn trpst a mortgage ’gainst them all.