If You Want a Thing Done, Go; If Not, Send

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“A traveler’s starting for a distant port, / The train is ready, and the time is short; / He gives a boy his trunk upon the way, / Bids him be quick, and not to stop and play, / But soon the boy pursues a butterfly, / Forgets his errand, and the time slips by.”

Keywords

boy, trunk, traveler, proverb, kproverb, metaphor, if you want something done go, if not send, do it yourself

Galleries

Groups of Boys

Source

Barber, John W. The Handbook of Illustrated Proverbs (New York, NY: George F. Tuttle, 1857)

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