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Show "ULYSSES MENDENALL." What wolio me? Surely in my dreams I heard the teacher call The r II as she did years ago, "Ulysses Men- denall" I I heard tha' name then juHt as plain aud his rep'inse a rlear Aswhon rrom hie far corner seat Ulysses answered' an-swered' "Horn!'' Ulysses Simpson Mend-null, the partner of my joys- The jiaitner of my sorrows, too-when you and I were boys. We learned to skate toaether on the creek at Jones's mill, Together gathered walnuts from the tree around the hill; As parlners trapped the red bird, fished together to-gether In the brooks. And joined to (father scrap-iron to exchange for lines and hooks; Collaborated on the spoil of marble playlnu sk'll; And on the autumn Saturdays we tramped 'er field and hill, And emulated Daniel ttoone from morn to set of sun You with your homely yollow dog, I with my father s gun. And when the sun In summer made the mad a iiiilverliiir track. f low willingly you wooed the chance of bllster- '.ng your back, In heipinz thin the corn rows Just to gratify the whim Of father, who insisted that I work before I swim! Ulysses Simpson Mendenall. that ragged coat you wore Is Ju-'t as plain to me as though we two were hoys onee more. Kor I rememi er well eai h rent-how this was torn the day The hornets chased ynu through the hedge while I hid In the bay; And this recalls the time we climbed the old mulberry tree: And thin, t almost blush to say, came from a tlt-ht with me. Dear old Ulysses Meuder.ail, how far aw y those d:iys' How sweetly painful are the dreams old memories mem-ories can raise '. Somehow I nodih d at the flro tonight and doml and then 1 hurried bark across the years and we wcro hoy again. But Oh' to see that rsiRed coat, to grasp that eallonsed hand '. To taik to you of things which only we would understand. I ll Nose my eyes and try acaln to Lear the teacher call The roll, and hear you answer, "Iloro!" Ulysses Menderall. Cort Smth in Mrper's Vekly. |