HE CHEERS YOU UP.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7569, 23 May 1914, Page 6

HE CHEERS YOU UP.

Here's to the man who lies to us, who’s careless of the truth, 'Who slaps us on the back and says, “ Gee! how you hold your youth!” Who shrinks not at the future when he lias a lie to tell. But, when you’re sick and tired and blue, declares “You’re looking well 1” Here’s to the man who tells us lies when solemn truth would hurt, Who says, “I’ll back you through and through, if it should take my shirt”; Who, when you’re “off” ami cannot write just as you think you should, Will tune you up to boiler things with. “That’s what T call good!” Or. when you paint a picture that is wrong in every part. Will make yon thinlc the daub is great by saying, "Now, that’s art!” Ho lies —hut it’s in charity, if lying ever was, So hero’s his health, for. although ho lies, ho’.s honest when ho docs. Fair Customer: “I wear a number two.” Clerk: “But. madam, this shoe that you just look off is a number four.” Fair Customer: “Yes, I know; but it has stretched horribly.”