PUT-OFF TOWN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 16 June 1900, Page 1151

PUT-OFF TOWN.

Did y<»u ever go to Put-Off Town. Where the houses are old and tumbledown. Ami everything tarries and everythin? drags. With its dirty streets ami people in rags? On the street of Slow lives Old Man Walt. And his two little Imys. naiiitxl Linger and Late. With unclean hands ami tousled hair. And a naughty little sister, named Don i ('a re. Grandmother Growl lives in this town. With her two little daughters, called Frei and E row n. Ami Old Man U-izv lives all alone Ar.iuml the <-orner on Street Postpone. Pi»t you ever go to Put-Off Town To play with the little girls Fret ami Ei own. Or g<» t<> the home of Old Man Wait. Ami whistle f. r his hoys to come to th.To play all day in Tarry Street. Leaving your errands for other feet? To stop or shirk, or linger or frown. Is the nearest way to this old town. “Little Men and Women.”