Show knowing your trade by walt wait M mason ason 8 1 NE day I 1 had to take a board and fix the roof which let in rain 0 ONE I 1 sa ed my fingers 0 f and roared until the neighbors had a pain 1 I tried and tried to drive a nail and every time the hammer miss ed I 1 to led for ho rs without avail I 1 broke my ray neck and sprained my wrist I 1 clawed the shingles 0 f the roof and piled plied up smoking words in tiers till friends and neighbor s stood aloof and heli held their fingers to their ears and then a carpenter I 1 sought of sa saving i ing boards a trade he makes he I 1 fussed around my lo 10 I 1 ly cot and had it fixed in forty shakes lie ile kne v just ho v to wield a sa v he knew just how to drive a nail he wore a soul smil and from his jaw there came no language rank and stale and when bis his little task tas WAS done he came inide ins de my humble home and said when he had got h hs s mon I 1 wish you d read this little pome I 1 dashed it 0 f the oth r n when inspiration warmed my heart I 1 would that I 1 in m write for I 1 n a honeyb rd on art I 1 read two lines then with a roar I 1 tied him in a sa lor lors s knot and buried him beneath the floor of my obscure but hanily cof co |