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Show Just Folks ly Edoe. A. Guest DEAD I saw him living and breathing and moving about us and yet He was dead to the beauty of summer and blind to the mignonette. He was deaf to the cardinal singing sing-ing up high on the tip of a tree, For the sight and the tinkle of money was all he could hear or could see. He ate and he drank at his dinner din-ner as one who was counting count-ing the cost: The minutes he sat at the table were computed as dollars he'd lost: And though there was laughter about him he never once lifted his bead; Nor beauty nor pity could rouse him) to things such aa that he was dead. I saw him living and breathing aand moving about among men. Yet all that he knew was his ledgers, his red Ink and black and his pen; . He saw not the stars in the heavens; heav-ens; he cared not when j roses were red: Tbe world spread great splendor ) about him. but he saw them no more than the dead. t (Copyright 1937. for The Telegram j There are more than SO 000 . j members of the American Medi- i cal association. r s. |