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Show Uncle Walt IK Poat PhiloioaW THB DIPPB. How dear lo my heart wee the rustjr old dipper that hung by the pump In the breve dave of old ! It made a men itrleRy. contented and dripper, to drink from that dipper a draught eweet end cold. We came from the harvit field, where we'd been goaded by rtithleae employere. end k-pl on the Jump, and stood there and drenk till our Innardi esploded. and blessed tlie old dipper thai bung by the pump: that rusty tin dipper, that weather wea-ther atalned dipper, that life giving dipper dip-per that buna by the pump. But now, In the Mistering heat of the .Tune time, we go to the well with our tongues hanging out. and wrestling around that old pump all the noon time. In trying to drink a few drope from the spout.. The bughouae g.rm doctora hsve banished ban-ished the flagon from which we all drank when we met at the pump; no more esn the boys gt a hard water Jag on! the tmaty old dipper has gone to the dump: the long handled dipper, the mall order dipper, the aoul soothing dipper haa gone to the dump! , CfrrigW. 1911. by 3orf Matthe Adam. |