Show Just Folks By EDGAR A. A GUEST AN ATTORNEYS ATTORNEY'S PROUDEST S MOMENT We were chatting as men will of things past and things to be When he said The proudest moment moment mo mo- ment that has ever come to mo me Was Vas the day I 1 checked my savings sayings say sav ings more than twenty years ago And said to Uncle Hiram I r can pay you ou what I 1 ove You see my Uncle Hiram wasn't easy cosy as a rule But he did advance the money so that I 1 could stay in school And the day I 1 graduated I 1 went back to him to say That if it once I 1 got established every dollar dolIar Id I'd repa repay Uncle Hiram merely grunted said goodby and wished me luck And the note which I 1 had offered in his pocketbook he stuck But the road was long and toilsome toilsome toil toil- swiftly some somo and the years so flew fiew That to meet my own expenses expenses' seemed the best that I 1 could do i Still I l' scrimped and saved and struggled and the da day I 1 shant shan't forg forget t When I 1 went vent to Uncle Hiram with enough to pay my debt I was proud of that achievement but a tear teardrop drop in his his' eye cye Told me that Uncle Hiram was was' a prouder er man man than 1 I. I Copyright 1936 Edgar Edga A. A Guest |