Eureka Reporter | 1905-01-20 | Page 6 | Immortality

when I 1 was grass immortality perhaps I 1 may have wept As every year the grass blades paled and slept or shrieked in anguish impotent beneath the smooth impartial cropp ng of great teeth I 1 don t remember much what came to pass when hen I 1 was grass when I 1 was monkey I 1 rn afraid the trees t always hav han ens of contented ease things killed us and we never cou d tell why no doubt we blamed the earth or sea or sky I 1 have forgotten n y rebellion rebellions s shape when I 1 was ape now I 1 hae ha hat e read ed the comfortable skin this stage of living Is enveloped in and arid hold the spirit of my mighty race self conscious prisoner under one white f face see I 1 in awfully afraid I 1 rn going to die now I 1 am I 1 so I 1 have planned a lypo 1 hypothetic life to pay me somehow tor for my to I 1 and strife Ble blessed sed or damned I 1 some way must contrive that I 1 eternally be kept alive in this an endless boundless bliss I 1 see s eternal me when I 1 was mas man no doubt I 1 used to care about the I 1 atle thil gs that happened there and fret to see the years going by and nations famil es and persons die I 1 didn dian it much appreciate I 1 fe s plan when I 1 R was as a man charlotte perk ns oilman gilman