SPRING.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)

SPRING.

(Scut by Marion Pill.' The cock is crowing. The stream is flowing. The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the siui; Tiie oldest and youngest . 'The cattle are grazing, Their heads newer raising: There are forty feeding like oneLike an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hili. The plough boy is whooping animation; There’s joy in the mountains; There’s joy iu the fountains; ,Small cloud are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone. A mountaineer and his eldest sou were coming down to pay their annual visit (o the little village at the foot of the mountains, where a country road had just been put through. As they rounded the last curve in the winding trail, some tourists in an automobile dashed by on the main road. The father and son, never having seen anythin " like this before, watched it with open mouths. Just as It roared around the curve, the county’s new speed cop wliizzed past on a motor-cycle. This was too much. "Well!” exclaimed the father. "'Who’d n thought that thing had n. coltj”