Show I IS HAPPY DAYS I i Why Men Dream and Wake to Weep for Times Gone By Chicago News f Yes sir happy days das of 1 course ourse We Ve know about that We Ve forgotten for otten the joy of sleeping In an un unfinished finished loft In winter when our breath froze to the bedding and we had to thaw us out with a hot flatiron every morning Morning too We Ve got ot up at 4 a m pitch dark sI below zero and still going lown Town We Ve had to get up hustle Bustle out and feed and milk the lowing herd lierd curry the then rear n ar elevation of or the family mule wake the rooster up to crow thaw than out the pump Jump chop four cords of wood and md shovel way away the snow to make room for tor the sun to rise Sometimes we went to school In the th w win In ter not often Only on the days das when it was nas as too cold and stormy to go outdoors Then rhen we sat on an a nice nc cool board about fifty feet away from the stove and gayly galy Wow blew at our fingers finders and picked from Irom our hair And as ns n we sat we list listened ened eI ed to a woo wooden en Image with a teachers license as he handed us UR misinformation ana and permanently perma crippled our Then lh n came camp tho the merry springtime s Rise sit at t 30 a m More lowing herd herl The herd lierd owing to the tho supply of fodder being low Then the hired man who had hl hi in the forest came forth seek ing lug whom he ho might make nappy happy with his lite hi presence And wo W being in need of or extra JOY loj were WErl allowed to sleep with this wool noal ly Jy hireling who snored like the boom of If the sad sea Sfa waves Ho lie was a good oo follow fallow this hired lured man He taught us to chew tobacco and swear These lhee f gentle tlc pastimes procured J us more moro violent lick liel Jugs ings II S than any other Joy in our whole life No memorY Is more loaded with willi j jev germs than the spring s ring crop working Can wr 0 ever er forget foret the tho plowing ing How iv Wf we held the plow when we had to reach up lip with a pike piko pole to pot gat the handles han les how we WI drove droo the old plug plu team with th lines round our neck how when the elf de dells CP Vis Is broke the tha mares walkers away awa with W our frail body dragging behind by toy the cars CaIS When darKness care cane we stabled the pings plugs and amI went forth to milk mill the hrin brin elk heifer Tie The heifer kicked us across 1103 te to barn bann floor and ard on old obligingly 1 us back again Then when the i Hiking was wag over aver 01 what fun iun to turn in ht inana Inano ana aim teach a fool tool calf calC to drink xi ns acting arting as liS dry ry nurse ll to a 1 calf was wa one of the tho most unmixed JOYS jos josof of fir all We Ye ti Jd the calf short set t the tho ticket in front frond of ot him got e of his neck neek stuck two fingers In his mouth f and nd with the other hand jammed his head hall into the pail pall Ard And all cli the time we wen wre out oat abuse on calves Ir general and this idiot In particular This T i went vent on until dad came inand in and with lov ing patience ped us all about the place Then when we had carried in the wood wool brought ht forty gallons of water from the spring and cater eaten alOir abou eight pounds ff pf s j fid food vo wo w nt joyfully upstairs t r rd caire f down again immediately to break fast Ao We Ye often dream dr am ml and wa io veep for the 11 days das gone by who w was ripe ri J Je Wi e recall the old it that always alva s iad ra to 10 by b hand hand We recall little little stores stones that we rasped the edge of out en n We Ve recall the pretty u we WI stepped on with pur our ur bare baie feet We Ve r member r It f 11 with role ole n n gladness wen well How it all alt comes Somes comes back to tu US |