Show A FRIEND OR TWO james jamea M pierce in his iowa homestead says sometimes in my reading I 1 run across things so good I 1 cannot refrain from passing them to you who of us for instance does not know the value of a few good friends frieri 10 9 yet who among us ua has ever paid a tribute to our friends so BO great fully and so beautifully as a it has been paid by the poet who wrote the versus versea which I 1 set fm foith th herewith theres all of pleasure and all of piece in a friend or two and all your troubles may find release with a friend or two it its in the grip of the clasping hand on native 1 soil I a or in alien land ant the world ia I 1 made do you understand d der stand of a friend or two A bong ng t to sing and a trust crust to share mg imd with ih a friend tend or r two A smile to give and grief to bear with a friend or two A road to walk and a goal to win an inglenook to find comfort I 1 in the gladdest hours that we know begin with a friend or two A little laughter perhaps some tears fears with a friend or two A vale to cross crom and a hill to climb A mock at age and a jeer at time the prose of life takes the lilt of rhyme with a friend or two then fi ham run the goblet and quaff the t toast mist to a friend or two for glad the man who can always boast of a friend or two the fariest sight is a friendly face the blithest tread is a friendly pace and heaven will be a better place for a friend or two it is one of the penalties of a busy life such as I 1 lead that I 1 often cannot find the time to sit in the inglenook or stop in the fence corner and chat with a friend or two there is so much work to be done the day is so short and so we go along denying ourselves the pleasure which we crave the grip of the clasping hand the cheery word of friendship that will lighten the burdens of the day and rob th the e night time of its darkness my friends we do wrong when we do not stop atop every little while inis to get the full value out of our friend whips the season of the year is fast approaching when the most aldous ir insistent duties of the farm are over for awhile how better could we improve our leisure moments than by reading the best things we can get fret hold bold of and by renewing old friendships and mak ing new ones which shall hall last until the last clod has haa been thrown upon our final resting place life offer as s no greater blessing on outside wile tia circle of our own family than a friend or two they mean can nou to us of the farm than to any other men let us grapple our friends to us ua with chains of steel so that whatever comes neither life or death can tear them from us after all no matter how heavy the burden how dark the sky how filled ditl it foreboding the air how aff righting the shadow all your troubles may fahd release with a friend or two |