Facts About Time

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7992, 1 December 1905, Page 2

Facts About Time

Time is hard to define. According to tlw 'best poets time Ims a heavy loot, a tooth, a forelock, ami breakablo legs. It travels in divers pac J cs ; it ambles. trots, gallops, runs, rolls mid si. ain Is si ill; it has whips; it crops roses. So far it seems like a horse. Hut it lias a lon-tie/"» also A reckless hand that, write* wrinkles. This explodes the horse theory, furthermore, Mine files. Hence, "a of a fHine." Time W 'lnrimiv being also a hiivl, time is a g'ohl eagle, perhaps ; money is the root oi all evil, and procras-tination is the thief of time. Therefore procrastination is (!) a chicken thief, (2') t good thing'. The wickedness of lime is beyond quest ion. H is vindictive. "1 wasted time," mourns King Uicbard/'nivd now dolh i;mo waste mo." Time wails for mi man. Time shall throw a dart at t'hee, 'Jlftnki robs us in our Joys. Time will tell. Time is unthinking. Time possesses! its debtors. Mhe time-is out of joint .and well may it bo considering what a nuisance it is. Time is a sea., a sandy ln-ach, a bank, n shoal, and nti abysm. Also it is a w'hirlgl'g. which seenv? odd when we recall that time is qmiet as a nun. Time.is goctl, bad. high, line, hot, rough, Christmas, spring, waltz, common and lovely, Among good times may be mentioned quitting time and dinner time,