THE EASY WAY.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 9, 14 May 1920, Page 13

THE EASY WAY.

It's all as easy as can he. The land vou plough and sow With all the paying sorts of seeds; then wait and watch them grow. Could anything be easier, north, south, or east and west? You merely make a start, and let the seasons do the rest. The cow that gives off milk and cheese has nothing clse to do, Except to bite the barley-grass, and chew, ancl chew, and chew, And that entails no work, for when the grass is short, the rain You pray for on your bended knees will make it grow again. Th,e pig's a simple matter, too. He grunts when he is fed, And grunts, too, when he ign't — so you let- him go abead. And he is happy when there' s mud for him to wallow in ; Therefore, to clcan away the mud would he a useless sin. The poultry, too, have nothing else to do but lay and lay, Except, of course, the roosters — and so roosters do not pay. And when you gather in the eggs, and place them on the shelves, The hens need 110 attention— they are scratching for themseves. And oh ! the way the pumpkins grow a hundred to tlre vine ! Tho spuds — the sort of spuds on which a king would like to dine! And turnips, and those other things whose labels I forget — - All waiting for ihe prices that are quite the highest yet. A simple life, an easy life. .... I wondajr why I drive A cramp-held pen by day and night keep myself alive? Some day I '11 leave the grind of it, the everlasting care, And 'midst the cows and pigs and hens become a miionaire ! R.J.C. in "Sydney Bulleiin." N.S.W.