Show Just Folks By EDGAR A. A GUEST AN APPLE l I want a bowl of apples on the Ule table in the fall I 1 want a grate ire fire blazing casting casting casting cast cast- ing shadows on the wall And I want the mother sitting at her knitting in her chair And I want to hear her saying What Vh t a noise youre you're makIng making mak mak- ing ng there I know it isn't pretty and I know its it's not polite But my wa way of oC eating apples Isto Isto is isto to relish every bite And I 1 liI like c to go hO about it when were we're sitting slUIng there thero alone In 8 a vigorous sort of oC manner just to m in make a k o c my gladness known own I like to munch and crunch em cm emas as ns Im I'm pondering my book And at mother sitting knitting now and then to steal a alook alook alook look i iFor For I 1 know just what is coming V Very ry soon shell she'll turn and say Cant you learn to eat an apple in ina a gentler sort of way Oh theres there's something in an apple that defies all table laws The very goodness in it seems to tox toS x S call for loud appl applause use So I often otten say to mother when sh she shushes me rae My dear Wheres Where's the fun un of oC eating apples if the noise you cannot hear Copyright 1935 Edgar A. A Guest 4 |