HIGH COST OF SLOWNESS
The traffic grows! The traffic grows! Ambitious effort fast it slows— The merchant’s loaded truck, or flivver Like crawling worms our goods deliver; And daily, in increased degrees, Choking the city’s arteries, The autos, creep from morn till late While we, as usual, pay the freight! When winter’s wind sharp chilled my soul I ordered irr a ton of coal, But ere the truck the stuff could bring Behold —it was the midst ofsprirrg! The driver had the nerve to say He all that time was on the way, And in the bill (of all outrages), They charged me with the duffer’s wages! —“‘Frisco Examiner.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 6
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109HIGH COST OF SLOWNESS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 6
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