Show 1 l J More Truth Than Poetry I I II I By JAM JAM S S j. j MONTAGUE I p o 0 USELESS INFORMATION Our eyebrows arise and our careens careen When this thia In the news newe meets our gaze gaze Beginning next summer the government mea meaThe means meana To way the study grasshoppers grasshopper's ways The grasshopper Idler and robber and oaf Who strips off the leaves from the Whose only delight 1 Jq Is to steal a and d to oaf loaf j Why study a creature creature- like ilke him I SInce Aesop Aesop's first firs I press Nature Book came came from frome the theThis e This brute has been named In dispraise I How w when en confess winter ca camo round nd he was forced to His Ills shiftless shirtless improvident wa ways was s And how though he dol dolefully fully begged for a CrUSt On his wiry and nine Jointed knees knee knees In spite of his crocodile tears he was was thrust Out Into the blizzard rd to freeze And not through the years ears did he ever He He- feasts all the lon long summer hours repent P And the farmer each autumn Is sued for th the rent ent Because of the crops he devours Destroying and he S looting wings to and fro On garden and grain land Ind to feed Forever on harvests that other men sow I He lIe gluts his Insatiate greed Far be It from us to disparage the work That the government ably j performs But why waste Its time on this criminal shirk Who loots toots the whole country In swarms swarms' Like an aerial aerial leech like a four tour ed wing slug An utter de destroyer troyer is he If the government must note the ways of a bug bur bug Why doesn't It study the bee I THERES THERE'S MANY A SLIP Money roney does not always go a long way even even when 1 sent ent In a suitcase HER ERROR Maybe Germany thinks that just because she he pardoned Bergdoll's kidnapers we will pardon Dardon Bergdoll STILL IT MAY The Democratic national convention Is to be held In Madison Square Garden but that doesn't mean that the boxing commission will have ha to take charge charee of ot It f Cop Copyright right 1924 1921 by the B Boil I Syndicate S Inc |