NO GETTING AWAY FROM IT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1866, 16 December 1884, Page 2

NO GETTING AWAY FROM IT.

You can't escape trouble; whatever line of life you choose; and however much you may have yourself,.you'll find somebody worse off." ' .•.;.■'■• The farmer who has had his potafces ruined by potato bugs, whose sbetrae and whoso turkeys 'get lost in 4he woods, whose fruit trees, get blighted, and whose family have chills, envies the minister, who, he says, hasnotlilng to do but write his sermons; while that reverend gentleman, his salary unpaid and his- deacons in a temper, •the wood out, and the flour .not creased by a miracle, wishes his parents / had brought him up as a farmer.- .•; The lawyer, waiting for cli'enl?, wishes he were a doctor; while the doctor, called out five times a night to travel through the' rairi 'to seiTpeople who will never pay his bills, wishes, he were a lawyer, ■.■■■- •• y _ The milliner, who sewa all day atld jsrick of-the sight of feathers':and flowers, wishes to 'change places with the music teacher. The music teacher, sick of stupid pupils, with their waijjt of_ time and tune, wishes she were 'a milliner and could make bows all day lin peace,. .

_ The bachelor wishes he were, married, when he conies home to his Atary room and,sighs for a womWa voice to cheer bis solitude. The married man, enduring a curtain'lecture'of great length, wishes he were a bachelor, y The spinster, sitting sadly over her * cup of tea, thinks what a happy creature a wife must be. The wife, sitting up for her husband until the' wee sma' hours,' and wondering whether he is at. a champagne party, could correct the spmster'B opinions on that subject. In fact, we all have to take'our troubles, like pills when we are sick, whether we will or not, and our own are not worse than other peoples.