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Show HOLD FAST By DOUGLAS MALLOCH X'ITHIN a pasture lot one day, ' Where I had gone to ketch a colt, I let the critter git away Let go to git a better holt. And then 1 stood and blamed the beast, Like people will, got good and mad, Because it took an hour at least To git again the holt I had. Yet in that pasture, it appears, I learnt a lesson, learnt a lot: 1 don't let go, in later years, Until a better holt 1 got. Hold fast, the Scriptures say, to good, Until some other thing you know Will turn out like you thought it would, Of what you got don't quite let go. If 1 had held him by the mane Until I got his halter on i guess the lesson's purty plain, With either job or money gone, b'or lots of things can go astray About the same as horses bolt, So don't let go not, anyway, Until you got a better holt. . 1933. Douglas Malloch. WNU Service. |