THE HAPPY WARRIOR.
(By WALT MASON.) 'Dark ike night and wfet and dismal, as I go to milk the cow: I’ve excuse for grief abysmal, but no frown is on my brow. Cheerily I chant and chortle, though the clammy raindrops fall, as I near the creaking portal that admits to Bowie’s stall. .For 1 learned loss Since that swearing doesn't help one ltat up wood; heavih£ s»*hs and moans despairing, time has shown me, is no good. If I have a task unpleasant I approach it with a grin, srailmg, as I smile at. present, till I sprain my double cliin. Then the chore is quickly ended -which would drag, if tears were splashed, if my sorrel beard
were tended, it : my careworn teeth were gnashed. For it' one is sad and bitter when ho goes to milk the cow he’ll antagonise the critter and she’ll kick him on the brow. Everything gets out of kilter, everything will go smash, if man lets hot language filter through his rusty old moustache. Being filled with angry passion never helped one do his chores; cussing in a frantic fashion never healed a row of sores. If T have a grief I chuck it further than ■ Jaws allow, viiin I take the old tiu bucket aad go forth to siilk the cow.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17080, 29 June 1923, Page 6
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