I WANT A HOUSE.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 28, 24 September 1920, Page 12

I WANT A HOUSE.

I want a house and a comfy chair And a red-brick fireplace all my own. I want a nice soft reading light, And a rug or two, and a telephone That nobody else brft I may use. I want a cat and a dog, and then To tend the furnace and walk and lawn — I want a house. I want a house and an apple tree In a real back yard. And oy and by I want some dishes and silver and things And room to fus3 and scrub and try Out all the rules in the magazines. I want a place where I can sew And then run off without picking up. I want to watch "just folks," that go Up and down on a pleasant street . And feel they're there, but my house so clean, With straight white curtains and bordered walk, Is a place of refuge that stands betweeo All folks and me. Oh, nobody knows How I want a house!