Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-12 | Page 4 | Just Folks

Just Folks By EDGAR A. A GUEST PLEASE AND THANK YOU In In Ii all the words of childhood the most difficult re a-re are these The simple grateful thank you and arid the pretty little please And the mothers and the fathers world wide over night and day Keep driving home homo the lesson with the phrase What do you say Wherever there are children you will find them at their task So uSo you want another cooky Well is that the way to ask When Aunt Nellie NelUe gave you candy candy can can- andy an- an dy did you snatch it right away Or did you bow politely and re remember remember remember re- re member what to say Oh the old folks folk get their pleases rather grudgingly at times And with very awkward thank they're rewarded for their dimes And some cases I remember where a youngster has been spanked Because his doting grandpa hadn't properly been thanked I am ann glad they cant can't remember Inthe in inthe the tho years years years' when they have grown The embarrassment they've t the h e y v e C caused us and the suffering Buffering they have known I 1 am glad the mind refuses to re retain retain re- re tain thin such memories As the struggles to say thank you and the th battles 0 over v e r please Copyright 1935 Edgar A. A Guest