MAN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 23, 4 June 1892, Page 582

MAN.

Man that is born of a woman is small potatoes and few in the hilL He riseth np to-day and flourisheth like a rag-weed, and to-morrow or the day after the undertaker has him In the He goeth forth in the morning warbling like the lark, and is Knocked ont in one round and two seconds. In the midst of life he is in debt, and the tax-collector pursueth him wherever he goeth. The banister of life is full of splinters, and he slide th down it with considerable rapidity. He walketh forth in the bright sunlightto absorb ozone, and meeteth the bank-teller with a sight-draft for three hundred and fifty-seven notes. He cometh home at eventide and meeteth the wheelbirrow in his path and the wheelbarrow riseth up and smiteth him to the earth, and falleth upon him and runneth one of its legs into his ear. In the gentle spring-time he putteth on his summer clothes, and the south wind striketh him far away from home, and filleth him with woe and rheumatism. He layeth up riches in the bank, and the manager speculateth in margins and then goeth to ’Frisco for his health. • In the autumn he putteth on his winter trousers, and a wasp that abideth in them filleth him full of intense excitement. He buyeth a watch-dog, and when be cometh home late from the lodge the watch-dog treeth him and sitteth beneath him until rosy mom. He goeth to the horse-trot and bettetb his money on the brown mare, and the bay gelding with a blaze-face winneth. “He marrieth a red-headed heiress with a wart on her nose, and the next' day her parental ancestor, goeth under, with few assets and great liabilities, and cometh home to live with his beloved son-in-law.