Show arm copyright 1907 by byron williams bill 1 bill jinks he allus in th sunshine or th rain lie had lively notion that his eased th pain when want th matter why he whistled gist th game A up th gladness ter th sadness when it came ha sed that his religion was t whistle out th aoa an anake a kind 0 heaven fer himself right here by moraln you could hear him of th lark an to th robins chasan breakfast in th park he lost his job an whistled till another came along an aed he guessed he charmed it with th gladness ot his song he figured trouble scooted when you fought it with a tune an kept your heart a with th ecstasy 0 june th crops they tuk a notion not t come t head one fall stock was lean and hungry and our cup was filled with gall but bah he kept a ter th colln of th light A ln to his neighbors that th sun light hollered foll ered night ll 11 never seen a feller abat could keep his spirits gay when inside he was scream ln fer a dinner that o te see he seemed t give us strength t stem th rushan tide A over kansas which we loved with honest pride hext year th chopa was ample an we held thanksgiving day with bill merry in th booi gooi old fashioned way well hacka he lived til eighty gist a til he died we burled him with honors by th river s side i I 1 can t begin t tell you how us people missed his tune A aart 0 wistful tor th 0 his rune it seemed as if th sunshine of th place had slipped away an hid itself forever when we buried bill that day its still a village custom when th heart Is cold and chill T kind 0 nudge yer neighbor an t mention bill awaa ever thus scene six little girl playing on the village green oh goodness with a shriek look there girls bookee Lo okee lie a coming athla way I 1 ob my hea oh dear walling he a catch ing us panting oh oh now you just stop that oh with a shrill cry that startles the neighbors tor blocks oh dear boohoo boo hoo chorus boohoo boo hoo tears more tears shrieks then a mans voice calls out i from browna raspberry bushes here you I 1 what are you doing to those aw g wan I 1 aint doln to th traudy cats and little johnnee brown throws a dead garter snake across smiths barbed wire fence and slinks away down the alley it is when we get these glimpses of boyhood that be are reminded of byron s excerpt A little curly headed good for nothing and mischief making monkey from his birth the reason it has just been discovered that the chicago man who ran way with red hot stove stole the article merely ag a curi olty he had lived in a chicago flat tor ten years and wanted to get warm once morel what a the mattert did you think this was poetry silvers of thought when a man can buy a good snow shovel for eighteen cents king win ter has a right to be discouraged the narrowest man can be as ob as a mule in fact this trait is suggestive of a lack of broadness nobody knows better bow hard it Is to get up in the world than the man who haa determined to aln and does we drive a lot of nails in our own coffins by always reaching upward and never being satisfied with what we have when two young folks marry tor money and discover that they love each other but neither has wealth cupid kicks up his beela and sometimes when a man makes too much money ha has to go to prison and make shoes this jast drop la stocks was a drop too |