BE YOURSELF.
It is hard to be a turnip M hen you’d like to be a rose. And ’tis hard to be a cabbage All the time!
And ’tis also very horrid Just to be a little boy When yon want to be a monkey. And to climb!
But, if you’re born a boy Or—a turnip, after all, It really seems a better Thing, by far,
To be that boy or turnip, Just as hard as you can be, And then, you see, you’ll be, just— What you are. —Alicia Aspinwall, in the Boston Evening Transcript.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 63
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96BE YOURSELF. Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 63
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