Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-10-13 | Page 7 | Have Your Bag Ready, Boy

I Have Your Bag Hal Ready Boy By Herbert Kaufman fin rn rr HE barrens are merciless trial grounds Pretense succeeds in 1 crowded p places a es but isolation cracks every mans man's v veneers and andr r reads his secrets No one m may y hide from the wilderness Outposts of empire ha have vc shameful tales to tell of many a celebrity and there are dim corners of earth where simple obscure folk have played such parts as Homer Home r sangI sang I God must love a certain shelf of rock in the Antarctic seas wh where re the survivors of ShackletOn's expedition waited in patience until their captain setting out for the m mainland inland in a flimsy cockle should keep his promise to bring a rescue party Starvation squatted in the camp and ate at leisure from the crew nth Me-nth after month went by b but t every morning Wilde the boatswain ordered kits packed Have Ha ve your bags ready boys the boss may come back today Despair could not break those Englishmen They held death at bay with scraps of fat and bits of biscuit and not one of the crew was ever heard ever heard to curse his destiny They survived because their will knew no compromise What comparable h hardships bid you throw the game before the last hands hand's played Copyright 1917 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and nil all other rights reserved