THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12016, 19 December 1924, Page 20

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH

• 1924 MODEL, ' ■(Percy Waxman in Harper’s.) Under. afi ad . for gasoline ; .. The village smithy stands ;.■ ; He’s .agent for the »,Jjnx machine / - And several 'other brands. .; , He, hasn’t . shod: a horse for yeafs, i For fear he’d soil: hiß hands. r .-. -i He. wears a gold watch on - his wrist, : A-pearl pin in . his tiet, '. , - His links are -made of amethyst,. ,- The finest he .could, buy. , i : ‘ - There’s, not a thing- smithy wears: That doesn’t take the eye’.' - Week in,' week. out, from morn till: ■ .'night, , ] ■ He sees the autos come . - With brakes that , are not working - right,. v . ~s. And axles: on the bum. ’ ’With gas,'repairs, and' greaso and oil, Be makes a tidy sum. , He has a staff of skillful mfen That:number twenty-four • Mho .toil from six ,a.m. tijl, ten, [ And sometimes even more.’ ■ < , - Hie smithy never does a stroke— He tl inks that work’s a . bore. The children coming home from school _ ■. . Look in at the'open door, And laugh to see some, city fool Sot up an aw'ful r roar When called to pay some whoppingbill The smith has soaked him for. • t He goes on Sunday to the kirk, His, mind quite free from ,cares, Because his ; mdn are -hard ’(it iroi-k • ' V With-pudctureS - hnd -repairs.' <f v And if tli'e weathef’s' ftri& till'd 1 warm ;.jTliejmnith;Bajß; grateful prayere. ‘Oiling:—refilling—repairing', ' '. p -Onward through.iife he goes, ( And - - i - -So, long aq -hia income grows.' Each- night- the thought sof -V-adueene-' done'. 1-. . Augments his -sweet repose. •;