StoryTitle("caps", "K For Klondyke") ?>
InitialWords(0, "K for the klondyke, ", "smallcaps", "dropcap", "noindent") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "a Country of Gold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the winters are often excessively cold; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the lawn every morning is covered with rime, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And skating continues for years at a time.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Do you think that a Climate can conquer the grit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the Sons of the West? Not a bit! Not a bit!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage029", "
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the weather looks nippy, the bold Pioneers ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Put on two pairs of Stockings and cover their ears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And roam through the drear Hyperborean dales ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a vast apparatus of Buckets and Pails;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or wander through wild Hyperborean glades", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Hoes, Hammers, Pickaxes, Matlocks and Spades.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There are some who give rise to exuberant mirth ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By turning up nothing but bushels of earth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While those who have little cause excellent fun ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By attempting to pilfer from those who have none. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At times the reward they will get for their pains ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is to strike very tempting auriferous veins;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or, a shaft being sunk for some miles in the ground, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not infrequently nuggets of value are found.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They bring us the gold when their labours are ended, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And we—after thanking them prettily—spend it.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("smallcaps", "Moral") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just you work for Humanity, never you mind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If Humanity seems to have left you behind.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>