Show yellowlegs saturday evening post yellowlegs is young and foolish when he wanders out from school thinks a mines a proposition to be run by line and rule he can tell the grizzled foreman just exactly where hes wrong and the errors of the shift boss are his never end ending ing song what he know of mining worth the while to learn he would teach the old hands better give bem fem em hints at every turn hes the pinnacle of progress hes the prophet and the seer for hes learned it all a at t college has the mining engineer yellowlegs is young yellowlegs is new give him time to find himself time to change his view hell come down a peg when hes worked a year hes a bully boy at heart Is the engineer yellowlegs gets slightly wiser when hes worked around a while when he sees a little merit in the other peoples style finds a thing or two in mining he admits he know laughs at absolute opinions that he held a while ago then he buckles down to business there is plenty of his own lets the foreman and the shift boss fight their worries out alone for it slowly dawns upon him and it dawns upon him clear it will keep him mighty busy just to be an engineer as yellowlegs is young yellowlegs gets wise finds he any time left to criticise criticism critic ise all his ways quickly disappear hes a bully boy at heart Is the engineer yellowlegs has all the workings on a blue print paper plat he knows where this drift is going where the latest is at it is yellowlegs who figures when to raise and how and where to connect the different levels and to give the miners air how to crosscut cross cut through the country how to raise a thousand feet so the shaft that he is raising and the one above shall meet and although we chuckle at him when he comes among us here hes a pretty wise is the mining engineer yellowlegs is keen yellowlegs is cool after he is toned a bit hes nob odys fool mine would be a joke capt with him to plan hes a bully boy at heart and a bully man berton braley |