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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 5 (September 1, 1930)

Profit and Slosh

Profit and Slosh.

You protest, dear reader—and rightly so—that, things being as they are, you are obliged to pursue the delusive “deener” and the quondam “quid,” in order to keep the wolf off the visiting list. True, true, poor reader, but if things were as they are not, the scales would fall from your eyes and the weights from your mind; you would note with gladness that grass is green. You would wot the wonder of the earth's awakening when, as the sun rises flushed and sweet over the edge of the earth, all things hold their breath at the glory of her coming. page 13
“Steam has been the greatest benefactor of man.”

“Steam has been the greatest benefactor of man.”

Compared with this miracle, the cost of cough-drops and the dearth of doughnuts would sink in significance; your daily dozen on the field of profit and slosh would fall as flat as a tape-worm's shadow. If circumstance released you from the bondage of “boodle” you would have leisure to contemplate Nature's great all-sound natural-coloured, singing, talking comedy-drama, with its galaxy of stars and Lydian luminaries—and all on the blink, without tithe or tax. You would have leisure to ponder the meaning of Man and the majesty of the mustard seed; to contemplate the looming grandeur of the storm and the perfection of the bee's knee; to scent the drifting fragrance of Nature's breath.