Emery County Progress | 1905-12-30 | Page 5 | Joyful Song of the Cricket

JOYFUL SONG OF THE CRICKET its remembrance almost stirs maine ed tor to peltry the song of the cricket is asso clat ed with some of the most joyful events in life with full granaries and heaping cellars with bending or chadds where squirrels scamper and couch along the walls with hazy hills and misty vales with mellow sunlight and silver moonlight with kissing in the old farmhouses and with seeing the rosy cheeked girl home along the country road and with standing by her side at the front gate until the old stars went down in the west and new stars peeped above the eastern hills how the crickets did sing on those lichts and they said cheer up as plainly as could be why any fellow should wish to cheer up or how he could possibly need to cheer up when standing close up alongside of a nice girl to keep the bears away Is a ques alon that we refuse to answer and it does not matter in the least tor it the crickets had cried tor us to feel bad we should have disobeyed them and would do so now it we had the chance bangor news