p. 805 | PUT-OFF TOWN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1900

PUT-OFF TOWN

Did you ever go to Put-Off Town, Where the houses are old and tumble-down, And everything tarries, and everything drags, With dirty streets and people in rags?

On the street of Slow lives Old Man Wait, And his two little boys named Linger and Late, With unclean hands and tousled hair, And a naughty little sister named Don't Care.

Grandmother Growl lives in this town, With her two little daughters called Fret and Frown; And Old Man Lazy lives all alone, Around the corner, on Street Postpone.

Did you ever go to Put-Off Town To play with the little girls, Fret and Frown, Or go to the home of Old Man Wait, And whistle for his boys to come to the gate—

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.

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