A NON-GRUMBLER.

NZ Truth, Issue 71, 27 October 1906, Page 7

A NON-GRUMBLER.

, [There may be "Grumbling Husbands'* galore; but, the sassiety correspondence notwithstanding, Cholly Cheerup maintains that there are plenty of his sort.] I'm a husband, but I grumble not (say 3 Cholly), for I hold . 'Tis of no use grumbling when you can't escape; Those who do so show no wisdom, and the Benedicts who scold Get non-grumblers like myself into a '. scrape. ' ' '■■ I don't say there's nought to ruck at m . "my little wooden hut," For -my Muriel would often be the cause Of bad language from your humble, if I gave way to it; but 'Tis the hopelessness of grumbling gives

I me pause. ?, If you grumble once, then more fco grumble at there soon will be ; ! So, unlike the. badly-fed home-coming hub, I don't grumble at the dinner, there are no i complaints from me, I go out, and feed m comfort at the club. I don't grumble when she threatens that.she'll go home to her ma, For I knq\£, m vulgar parlance, that's her i( kid ; " But she might return to mother, m which case I'd go so far ; As to say I shouldn't grumble if she did. I dbn J t grumble at late breakfasts, for I always overnight • Qualify for loss of appetite next day; I don't grumble at the fripperies m which she takes delight, I don't grumble at the bills I have to pay. They are stiffish, but though stiff enough to - stun ; most married men, I don't grumble, I just liquidate the score ; If I didn't, I should have to buy her presents now and then, . Which would very likely cost a dashed sight more. But, although I never grumble, I'm no better off for that; . „. y ... My complaisant mood's supposed to indicate ....... That I must have, f qrmed some tie outside ! my own domestic flat; And kind friends are ready to insinuate ! That my wifie, chafing; wrathfully beneath i a sense of wrong, I Has been flirting, .m a way.; most indiscreet, •--; ■ r-'"' ; /'-f "■"■;,'! With young Captain Phil Philgarlick, and they hint that I, ere long, Will my Waterloo indubitably meet. "We have no wish to make mischief," crotik j these friends with tales to tell, "But supposing she elopes . with Captain Phil?" To which friendly supposition I, unmoved, make answer, "Well, I I sha'n't grumble— though it's ten to one he will i" DOSS CHIDERDOSS.