The Monthly Rent

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 303, 20 December 1922, Page 3

The Monthly Rent

By BOLTON HALL. They .sheared the lamb twelve times' a year To get some money to buy some beer; The lamb thought this was extremely, queer— Poor little snow-white lamb. . . -—Old Song. "God tempers the wind to the shorn, lamb," said the deacon. "I -will shut the gate of the field so as to keep Mm warm," said the philanthropist. "If you give mc the lags or wool," said the charity-clipper, "I'll let the poor creature hare half." "The lambs we have always with us," said the woolbroker. 1 ".Lambs must always" be shorn." j said the business man; "hand rae the shears." . ■ • "We should leave him enough vrpoi to make him a coat," said the profitsharer, "His condition is improving," said the landowner, "for his fleece ay ill be longer next year." "We should prohibit cutting Ms flesh when we shear," said the legislator. . "But I intend," said .{he Radical, "to stop this shearing." The others united to throw him out; then they divided the wool,