KEEP YOUR DATES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19830, 22 December 1919, Page 6

KEEP YOUR DATES.

: (By WALT MASON.) the dump at half-past two, and at that hour fail to greet me—if so flagrantly you treat mo. 1 am done, my friend, with you. \ou may meet mo with excuses, telling why you were not there; hut on such I call some truces; they’re not worth as many deuces; explanations aro hot an*. Keen engagements to the minute, is the burdten'of my song, as I swat my lyre and spinnet, singmo like a locoed, linnet, carolling the whole day long. If you'sav you’d pay the baker for his pies, on Monday noon, do not prove yourself a faker, or a taradiddle maker—bo there with the largo doubloon. Keep your promises unbroken, let no pledge of yours sag down; keep your word, though lightly spoken, be of faith tho sign and token, and you'll have a high renown, Keep yo-ir word, from A to lurarf., never overlook n date, though you walk through sleet or blizzard till you freeze your cherished gizzard—be the man who’s never late.