PESSIMISM.
(By WALT MASON.) I never knew a man to -sing or wear an optimistic smile, when going out o' doors to bring a load of stovewood from the pile. I've studied men for many years and never one I't'e known has Worn a cheery smile when neighbours' steers broke in hi.; field and ate his corn. No man has ever danced a jig of happiness, full well 1 know, when trying to escort a pig the way it didn't want to go. No sunshine lights the eye or brow of'any man who leaves his bed*, on snowy morn, to milk a cow in some old windy, drnfty shed. Oh, there arc times—not far between, when mortals cannot sing and smile, when they are feeling dour and iliean, and wish that sackcloth were, in style. And then the optimist who's wise will hide himself behind a cloud: foolhardy is the man who tries to force his sunshine on the crowd. In our town there's a Sunny Jim who works the sunshine tap too much; lie has a beefsteak on his glim, and cannot walk without a crutch.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11028, 17 March 1914, Page 4
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187PESSIMISM. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11028, 17 March 1914, Page 4
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