THE BUSY RICH.
(“It is impossible for a rich man to be idle,” says Lord .Kesteven. “J he richer he is 'the harder he works.”) AYheu I had a hundred a year, I led a most leisurely life; All work I would shun, as 1 sat m the
sun, * . , .... AYhere i whittled a stu’k with a knife. In youth I was lazy and- idle, 1 tear, AVhen I had a iiundred, a hundred a
year 1 AVhen 1 had five hundred a year Aly labors appeared to augment; I rose with the lark, and would dress in the dark, And by Tube to the City I went. From eight to six-thirty I worked as cashier, AVhen I had five hundred, five hundred a year! And now with ten thousand a. year, Mv work ev’ry moment grows more; I hu'v motor cars, and I open bazaars, And I struggle to fill nploun A I. And I"often recall, with a sigh-or a tear, Alv leisurely life on a hundred a yeai I H.G., in tjio. “Observer.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3112, 7 January 1911, Page 3
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174THE BUSY RICH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3112, 7 January 1911, Page 3
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