Show BACK TO DAYS DAYSI DA Happy Sure Surer If You Doubt Hike Back in Thought as You Read Chicago News Yes sir happy happ days da s of course We e know about that We Ve forgotten the joy jO of ot sleeping in an unfinished loft in winter when our breath froze to the bedding and we had to thaw out with a hot flatiron every morning Morning too We e got up at 4 a m in pitch dark 84 81 below belo zero and still going down We had to get up hustle out and feed and milk the lowing herd her curry the rear elevation of the family mule wake ake the rooster up to crow thaw out the pump chop four cords of i wood and shovel away the th snow enow tomake to tomake i make room for the sun to rise Sometimes Som we went to school in the winter not often oCten Only on the days daY when it I was too cold and stormy to go outdoors Then we sat on a nice cool board about fifty feet away awn from the stove stoe and gayly blew at our fingers and picked icicles from our hair And Andas Andas as we sat we listened to a wooden Image with a teachers license as he handed us misinformation and permanently perma permanently permanently crippled our Intellects Then came the merry springtime Rise at a a m in More lowing herd The herd lowing Bowing to the supply of fodder being low Then the hired man who had hibernated in the forest came forth seeking whom ho he might make happy happ with his presence And we being in need of extra Joy jo were al allowed a allowed lowed to sleep sloop with this wooly wool hireling who nho snored like the boom of the sad sea waves He was a good fellow tell ow this hired man He lie taught us to chew to tobacco tobacco tobacco bacco and swear These gentle pas pastimes pastimes pastimes times procured us more violent lick lickings lickIngs ings than any other Joy In our young life lite No membry Is more loaded with joy jo germs than the spring crop working Can we ever eer forget the plowing How we held the plow when we had hael to reach up UI with a pike pole to get the handles how we drove droe the old plug team with the Ines around our neck how when I the clevis broke the mares walked away with our frail fraU body dragging be behind behind behind I hind by the ears When VIlen darkness came we stabled the plugs plug and went forth to milk the brindle heifer The heifer kicked us across the barn floor and an anold anold anold old cow obligingly kicked us back again Then when the milking was I was over what fun to turn in and teach tetch a n fool calf ca to drink This acting as dry nurse to a calf ca was one of the most ed Joys jos of all We tied the calf short set the bucket In front of him got astraddle of ot his neck stuck two fingers In his mouth and with the other hand Jammed his head into the pall pail And all aU the time we were emptying out abuse on calves cales In gen general genera general eral era and this idiot in par particular particular This went on until dad came camen n and with loving patience horse horsewhipped horsewhipped whipped us all aU about the place I IThen Then when we had carried In the wood brought forty gallons ganOn of ot water wilter from rota the spring and eaten about eight pounds of solid food we went Joyfully upstairs and came down again imme immediately to breakfast We Ve often dream and wake h for tor the days dag gone by b when the Ii h ripe We fe recall the th old swamp tl t ways was had to be cut by hand Wu Wt v little stones that we rasped tin of our blades on We Ve recall the snakes we stepped on with our feet We remember It all with sq s IS gladness Well Wen well How It nil all 1 comes b bus us |