The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-11-27
Honolulu Patchwork.
A MOVABLE PATCH.
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Hey, Teller citizensl Pve NOV
ed again. And didn't get any Gre
dit, not clint, for that wagin-
paid up like a gintleman same
day. I'd like to always be a
gentleman" but find things too
often bankrupt, and am now go.
ing through chancery-not an
easy road to travel without even
wheel (barrow).
l hope it will rain almost every
day because l need MT don my
best gown-nobody would ex-
pect that on rainy days-my best
gown.
! should like, now, to be the
children of Israel; their clothing
did not wax old neither their
shoes; and 1 should like to try a
Wilderness" l was never in a
wilderness; but, have been in a
desert, even here in Honolulu,
and did not meet an oasis either.
1t was the drist kind of a desrt.
But l crossed it; oh yes, and con-
sidering all things kept fairly
cool. ] am always at my best, if
have any best, when deserts and
mountains loom up before me.
Then it is, that intangible fairy
good-mother of mine, comes dane
ing in my path waving her hand.
But, in times of prosperity her
happy face is never seen by me.
Oh, to be born and to live and
to die in the same old house, the
old home; and never to go out of
it, to wander from it, across land
and ocean! What a mistake!
Following, following shadows
false gods that satisfy us not. We
must see the world, and what is
the world to us as a whole, or we
to it? Tell me that hate the
world, and will none of it. So
much for that. / wish | owned
naught but my grip, and | own
very little as it is. Then / could
just toss into it any hour, my
toilet bothers and start for the
other end of the town and see
how they keep house for few
days, until / could not see any
thing more worth my atten-
ton and then fit to another point
of the compass, and look in there
at their little stingy, envious,
hugamuggin wOrld-their little
Society" tub, with a mental dia-
meter of about two feet or SO!
oh, for nothing but a grip! But
there are my bits of China you
see and my family silver" the
spoon given to me before / was
born and marked A M p and then
not 1892 years old, but given to
me by dear friends in Kohala;
and l expect if keep on moving
there III not be handle to my
cups nor a cup to my saucers ere
long. And move | must for how
can l find out what is going on,
or what is going to go on and
when it will start, if l don't shift
once in a while. Next time i am
going to the mountains-side as /
hear quite interesting folk and
dOings are there. l like to climb
any way and Pm going up How
is the Union Express Co. going
to live and feed their horses if
nobody moves! l am going to
make a move once a month: but
now, don't all buy a team.
This endless, never ending NOV
ing on, moving on! from ship to
shore, from beach to hilltop,
from city to Country, to valley, to
camp; from mansion to cottage to
hotel, until we come to that mar
row house where there are neither
feathers nor curled hair for bed
where this mortal goes to dust
and this immortal to a mansion
in the sky, if we have tried in all
our movings and goings-on to be
but half decent. / really don't
care for but one suit of clothing
at time and with a good grip
can travel o n. | don't want a
pile Of boxes and / do want to
move; it's my vocation to change
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