Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-06 | Page 7 | Whitman Lazy

1 4 I I Whitman Lazy I Among Among- the manS manS' intriguing glimpses g of ot Walt Valt Whitman's earl carl early life that Professor Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Emory Holloway has gathered for the tho Uncollected Poet Poetry and Prose of or Walt Valt Whitman a n volume two-volume work which Doubleday Pago Page Co will publish publish pub rub lish this fall Is a recollection of or young oung Walt Wait alt wh when n ho worked on the Long Island Democrat anti and lived with his employers employer's family in in Jamaica He was wasa I a laz lazy Impractical youth who was al always always always al- al ways under foot toot and a sore SOlO trial to Mrs TIrs Brenton tho the practical bus busy New ew England land wife of or the editor writes her ler er erda da In ln Mrs Brenton Drenton always emphasized tl when speaking speaking- of ot Whitman that ho was Inordinately Indolent and lazy and had a vcr very cry pronounced disinclination to work DurIn During some seine of or tho the time lime he was In the tho household tho the apple tr trees s In Inthe Inthe inthe the garden were In itt bloom When hen Whitman Whit man would como come from tho the printing office and finish the tho midday dinner ho would go out into the tho garden li lion hoon lie ho on his back under the tho apple tree and forget everything about going back to work as he gazed up up a at t the blossoms and tho the sky Frequently at such times limes Mr Brenton would wait walt for tor him a atho at atthe tho the office for an hour or two an and then send tho the printers devil up to the house to see seo what had become of him I Ho would invariably l be e found still ly lying lying ly- ly 1 ing InS on his back on the tho grass looking hooking Into tho the tree treo entirely oblivious of ot the fact that he was expected to be at work wont When spoken to he would woul get getup getup up tIP reluctantly and go slowly back to the tho shop At tho end of such a day Mr Brenton Drenton would come como home and sa say Walt has b been en of or ver very little help to me mo I today I wonder what I can do to tomake tomake tomal mal make e him realize that ho must work for tor a living an and Mrs ills Brenton would remark I dont don't see seo wh why ho he doesn't catch his death of ot cold lying thero on I tho the ground under that apple tree treel I