Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-28 | Page 4 | Just Folks

Folks F 1 k By Just J U S t 0 S A. A A CHARACTER Three wives had tried him and deserted Fleeing the horror of his lonely shack By womans woman's charms he could not be diverted From what appeared to them a dismal track He would not work for any stated wages Nor stay for long Ions oi 01 any crowded street He found no joy in reading printed pages And learned no pretty speeches to repeat For leaving him I do not blame his spouses spouses He was a man impossible to them A man unfit to dwell in well kept houses With all the faults the women folks condemn There seemed no lofty purpose that could hold him No goal worth rain pain Jain and sacrifice and toil Yet there were things the voice of nature told him That made him wise in sky and stream and ands s soil il I Unlettered and untutored he was kindly He knew the ways of beast and bird and bee bce Where others walked a stream or wood path blindly Innumerable marvels he could see He would not live his life lire as other men did No wife could te contented at his side Yet men there were when winters winter's reign was I ended I Who loved loyed him as a comrade and a guide 1 I