Circumstances and Cases.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 208, 2 September 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

Circumstances and Cases.

'There's plenby of work for this morning,' ehe cried ; 1 There's baking and scrubbing and sweoping beeide.' Bub ehe went at the baking with laughter and song, And suid, as she finished, • Thab didn't take long.1 And then to the scrubbing—and how ahe did scrub ! The boards were like snow when she gave the last rub, Her hands were so deft and her arms wore so strong, And she Baid, as she finished, ' Thab didn't take long.'

And thon to the sweeping—she made the dust fly. She looked at her work with a critical eye, And yet all the time she kept humming a song, l And she tacked to the last verao, 'That didn't take long.'

The dinner was over, the work was all dono 'And now for thab errand,'she said, 'I

mugt run! Six o'clock comes so soon when the days are co long.' And off she went humming a verae of that song.

The road she'd to travel wna straight aa a die, Sho knew every step, and she meant) just to fly ; But she met an acquaintance down there by the etile, And somehow—that errand—ib took a good while.

—' Scribner's,'