Show the adding machine by walt mason I 1 watched a wonderful machine aup tip five nilles miles of figures the operator all serene just pressed some keys and triggers it didn dian t sweat or tear its hair it didn dian t make la a blu blunder ader it counted all the figures there and put the product under A set of books I 1 used to keep when I 1 was young and husky and homeward wearily id creep when dusk was growing dusky I 1 counted fig ures all day long above my ledgers bending and the berned things wrong and sorrow was un ending and when the long day a 13 work was 0 er my troubles home I 1 d carry and there despondent sick and sore I 1 d raise old ned and har ry my children were afraid of me and so was old dog rover my wife would often climo ellmo a tree until my grouch was over but now the keep ers of the books are not worn out and weary they seek their divers diver inglenooks with faces glad and cheery A thing of springs and bolts and nuts shears work of all its rig ors a thing with brass and iron guta guts counts up the dizzy figures and ever thus in endless ways invention makes things lighter and brings some sunshine to the days of every tolling toiling blighter |