Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-08-09 | Page 11 | More Truth than Poetry

0 I More Truth Than Poetry 4 l I I By JAMES J. J MONTAGUE I o AN N ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP On learning that that a bug may t be e Imported That eats the bugs that prey upon my trees I muttered Now Ive I've got these rascals thwarted And soon Ill I'll have them beaten to their knees Forthwith I sent my order of ot ten thousand Of these extremely useful little bugs And put them in my ny apple trees to browse bro and I l Feed I-eed eed fat upon the beetles beetles- moths and slugs I r found them to their duty most devoted WIth busy jaws aws they went their LAnd I savage e wa way And watching as they worked I stood gloated To see the pests grow fewer every da day They never hever slept they never paused nor rested I TT But M labored red conscientiously and hard Until of the marauders they they'd d divested I The las last host t remaining tree fruit e in Ia my yard 1 But when there thet- were no insects to devour I No Tso borer grub or aphis anywhere They fell to w work rk on twig and leaf and flower Until my trees were s stripped and brown and bare I And though my insect enemies were thwarted ted No m more re b by me from any foreign s shore ore Will insect-eating insect Insects be imported I haven't any ny orchard any more ever thus in times of ot need and danger Our Judgment very ery often goes astray And we appeal for succor to some stranger Who Vho promptly drives our enemies away But having stood between us and aggression Our rescuer asks s calmly how much pelf pelt e We e had when w we were saved In o our r possession I And then thep s serenely takes It all himself