Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-26 | Page 4 | Just Folks

v 17 1 1 By y Edgar J Just U S t r F O 0 1 K S A A. Guc Guest t TilE THE DITCH DIGGER TALKS A youngster to his father said I ran away from school today I tho thought ht Id I'd rather work instead And earn a grown IF mans man's ns pay For all you asid Ifa led to heed heed But I have have had a talk toda today V With th one who scarce can write and read And I am back at home hom to stay A digger of a dit ditch h wa wal he Who Vho said while lea leaning ing on his spade 4 only strong you have to be beTo beTo To learn my very common trade I I I 1 could have gone to school but r I About the selfsame age as you Threw every chance for knowledge by To get a job that I could doMan do 4 Man g gets ts no further than his will wilI In spite of blunders and mistakes The Ebe in life which he shall fill fillIs fillIs Is b selU settled d by bythe the choice he makes II I If nothing more you wish to beThan be beThan Than I am now then run away But youngster take this tip from me T This is is a cheerless place to stay A digger of a ditch was he S Who met a a boy and understood And showed him thin things I he ought to see zee V u b. b his father could 1