BUY AT HOME.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15128, 20 February 1922, Page 3

BUY AT HOME.

(BY WALT MASON.) From Jinks, the tinsmith, honest man, I bought my super-three sedan I might have bought a car by mail, and got good value for my kale; but we have lived next door for years, and we have mingled smiles and tears; when Jinks would grind a snickersnee, i turned the grindstone cheerily; and when my cow is sick he’s there, to take the edge off my despair. And when he wished a noble ode to advertise his new abode, he came and offered me the chance, and paid five kopecks m advance. We stand together in our town, we do not turn each other down. Now I might go to 1 some, big place and have a barber mow my face, and get some frills X do not know in Punktown, where my whiskers grow. Our barber shaves me with a saw, and now and then the blood he’ll draw; but he’s a good and thrifty lad and helps to boost our little grad; he’s built himself a handsome shack, with roses climbing up the back; at home he bought the posts find rails, and 4ocal workmen drove the nails. And when he wants a stirring song, to help his growing trade along, he comes to me, the home-grown bard and buys the hot stuff by the yard, nor does he haggle at the price he’s handed me a rouble twice. We stand together for the town, and no one turns a neighbour down, thus Punktown grows, thus she expands, : and ,'she’ll be famed in many lands.