Show HOW IS THE TIME TO UVE ira AND LAUGH by annie laurie in the san francisco examiner I 1 met a man I 1 used to know this morning when I 1 used to know him lie he was a good natured good looking rosy cheeked checked little man with a flea prosperous little shop chop in a fine prosperous little street this morning when I 1 met him I 1 did not know him until he spoke to me hla his red cheeks had turned white his good clothes had turned shabby his square courageous little shoulders were drooping well he ha said 1 I think IM going to land it land what I 1 said why the estate said the tas little man man staring at me with beaming byis eyes the big english estate you know that belonged by right to my ay groat great grandfather grandfathers i and ought to belong to me ive had an awful time about it but ray my lawyer says it if I 1 can just raise more he can prove my case so BO that the chief justice of england himself will have to admit it hows howa the shop doing said eald 1 I the shop the little mans haggard face wal wai blank oh yes you mean my old business oh I 1 sold bold that long ago had to to pay my lawyers and the pretty little home you were building gone to said the little man it up to what I 1 ought to have anyway when I 1 come into my estates ill build the right kind of a home for or a ma man u of at property all gone busl business ness home happiness peace of 0 mind all all gone to the lawyers dont laugh too hard at the little man I 1 wonder it if some of us are not stepping right in his very footsteps the money going to have when weve pinched ourselves to death foi a lew few years longer the old friends were going to visit when they arc under the green and growing grass the children were going to find unit time to love and play with when learned to live without us the garden going to smile until unde our hands when we got get through mak ing our fortunes the fair moonlight that la is going to illuminate the wat ers under the tha bow of the little old oili canoe were going to paddle up quiet inlets when weve finished crushing the rival competitor out of business dreams dreams why dont wi wc turn them into reality id give more for or one little cheap posey sent to me by one friend who remembered than for or all the wreatha heaped mountain high upon my colfin were alive now lets live now BOW lets laugh and love right now don valt until Tec we conie olae int inn the estate which some old great great grand grandfather father ought to have handed down to us but care enough about us to remember to flo do it |