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

Men Must Talk and Women Must Sweep

Men Must Talk and Women Must Sweep.

But, alas, men must talk and women must sweep; the wild bee must drone along his scented way unheeded, and the tui trill to stone and stick. But this, outraged reader, is heresy. “If.” you protest, “we linger to laud the tulip or the tinted tip of a lagging cloud at sunset; if we fall by the wayside to commune with the cricket; if, in short, we neglect our L.S.D. we will be O.U.T.”

'Tis passing true, dear reader, but only because our antecedents made it so; hence I would that the first felon who lightly flipped the first token of travail over a counter had been mopped up and wrung out before he could utter his coin.