Show JUST FOLKS By Edgar Guest JOYOUS PILFERING She had a jar of cookies On a lower shelf it stood I And the morning that she made I them they were very veI very good But she had no little children to come running running- from the street I And in time a lot were wasted which alone she couldn't eat i I She had a box of candy which she never had to hide Since no child was there to pilfer though she left it open wide She could turn her back on it for an hour or for a day And no single piece would vanish in the time shed she'd been away If no piece of pie is taken from the lower pantry shelf If the cake stays on the platter till you eat it up yourself And if safe are all the cookies and the candy that you own It means the h home me is empty and youre you're living there alone Copyright 1919 Edgar A. A Guest |