THE LONG ROAD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 12

THE LONG ROAD.

(By Wafi Mason). That roads are long to Easy street, is true—all winners preach it; and if yon rhovo <»n sluggish foei, it's doubtful if you'll roach it. 1 sec somo lads who work tor line their louden trilbys dragging] iho smallest effort makes thorn tiro, and all they know is lagging. They face their work with dismal croaks, and grumblings! stale and wheezy; they'll never bask beneath the oak- thai line the street called Easy. The road is long to Busy street, 100 rough I'o any telling, and one must tireless be and Heel who there would havo jiis dwelling. Oh, watch the men who there abide, the men wJio dance and gambol, and you will 100 upon each hide the scar of stone and bramble. They met disaster with a smile, their mien wa? old and breezy, they vaulted over fence and stile, and reached the streel called Easy. The sluggard who is so afraid that lie 100 hard will labour, will loaf and languish in the shade and cuss his winning' neighbour; and each misfortune overwhelms this man with spirit cheesy; he'll never reel be neatli the elms that line the streel called Easy,