Show I II TAN F I- 10 I Ie of- of I of- of By O. O Harvey ON SPRING GENTLED GENTLE SPRING i King Winter sobs sob a a 3 sad goodbye As gentle Spring appears The shining In her eye eye eye- She brings us hopes and fears S Sh She enters at the valleys valley's mouth On wings of Joy and love Bringing Cringing a zephyr from the south Like the coo of a a. turtle dove By heck I cant can't write THe mush mushy stuff sturt lor or people holler Hold nouh The They say 53 t in jn one lar large e. e loud refrain Youve got gol a puncture in your jour oUr brain And though Im I'm full of or sad ad sweet dope and prunes run and SOURS of or love and hope I put It into rhyme the readers knock me every time and stand up straight and yell and bawl Aw cut It I out go so hire a a. hall bali I IThe The robin redbreast ast on the bough I Is chirping somewhere even now The meadow lark at break of day Will Vo soon go warbling on his way And flowers too of beauty rare Will waft their perfume on the air While lads and lassies Joyous crew Will meet at It night and bill and coo It H seems to rite n that verso erso like UIe that that comes a sizzling oft off tho the bat bat should I cause tho the hl high brow brow h-brow folk to say The Is fine tolla today Instead of or that It hurts to tell the they pet get et down loll on tile the floor and yell ell and laugh and nud shout with fiendish glee and have a J. lot of fun I with me That's wh why Im I'm slowly filling up with gloom like some old pilgrims pilgrim's mildewed tombA tombA tomb I A PECULIAR DEFORMITY It always alwa's pains me Inc to see a deformity mil in ill a fl human being and for fot that reason I 1 was shocked not nol long Ions ago to see a a. man who was left-handed left on the tho right side It was sas ono one of or th the most peculiar deformities deformities deformities ties I ever e saw Ills were not mates either both of them being left leCt eyes oyes and It was very cry hard for Cor him to see grammatically He lie would frequently step on the other si side o of or himself to get out of his own wa way Ho lie said ho he had to wear left handed s shoe toe strings or he couldn't tic tie his shoe shoes shoei Ono One day he wa was coming alon along the- the street when ho nw somebody who looked familiar eo so he went back a a. couple of or blocks and shook hands hand with himself and talked over old times for fifteen minutes before he discovered covered that he was talking to himself Last fall fail he said Bard he lIe woke voke up one night I and antl heard somebody stealing stealing- hl hi his chickens chickens chickens chick chick- ens eo so he Rot not up and went out and caught ht the thief right In the act let When he turned turned- the on light so he could see seo who ho the thief wa w lJ he lie discovered that It was waC himself When I get to 10 thinking that over sometimes 1 can hardly believe it But why should a d deformed man want to lI lie about himself when there aro arc so o many I physically perfect men to lie about |