THAT NICE CONTENTED MAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 4 March 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

THAT NICE CONTENTED MAN.

He was a,man oj moral.'worth above lis; sin^uljkir^d... : li., . „•,- ' \ ~: A waßhing.daywas joy.tohim, and.twoihe did not mind. ■ ... . The butcher's bills hp read with glee, ihe . .baker's made him smile; ;' r. : Cats in .the garden make,him laugh, as tl ey ..'.'„ 'did time beguile, ~i :,.-.. -,\ [,.. servant maid elt' '.'..' \ down.with'all the.things, ••.■'•.... And made' a'smasli; '|;was, ( but .the ills, t lat . matrimony brings, If. tpotiapbe .bothered him, he joked j jf corns .' adoriied bis toes, ■ •,. - ; ., j,.... : ;, ; I Quotli.h'e, "It; might,be something worse, ' "neuralgia','whoknows,?',';■ ,|. And thus,he went down the vale, of life so As tho'ugh.'toliye andpaylong bills, were one • ...eternal'spree. ~. ....,,."•!■• j \ Quptli lie,,'.' My- joys are far too, much, jfor .'! on e ,so., fiiil ,of I'" But' next' day came a change in luokj-a . lively pair of twins. ! ' And now the one, doth squall by night, the other yells all day,. I But still that modern Job goes on and Bmiles ■ ; his woes away. •:.,. .: '■ .. " j Qouth he, " It might be even w.orse, at leas : ■, itseems to me,~.■, | For-'stead of tiyiiis it might have been [not two, but .mayhap three."., " ~ ■ . I [ ...,.■ (—Adelaide Observer. . j