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Show FROST Bull terrier? Sure; she's a white 'un there ain't no other breed Frplic around you in sunshine, murder in time o need. Soul? O' course, she ain't got none. A dog with a soul, gee whiz! We folks, so the preachers tell us, has all tho souls that there is. The thief has a soul, and tho pander; the wife beater, he has a soul; But Frost! o' course not; she ain't on the lordly-roll. lordly-roll. A dog when it dies, so they tell us, well, that dog is Just plain dead, But we lofty human beings has eternity ahead. And this Frost, she ain't fitted, like us folks, for to enter into that same, For she only minds her own business and raises her pups to be game. The world has millions o' humans a-whinin' to thousands o' gods, While this Frost asks nothin' from no one, whatever what-ever the bloomin' odds. She never goes back on a pal, and there's nothin' can make her quit, Not if you chopped her to pieces and burned her bit by bit. But, o' course, when she dies she's a dead one. I have to go it alone, And I ain't so keen on facin' the shadowy trail on my own. Still, if ever I fluke into heaven, I'll bet I hain't long to wait Till that blame little Frost comes smashin' right through tho pearly gate. St Peter could never stop her, not if she gets a start, And if ever he looks in them eyes, I doubt if he'd have the heart. This Frost, the preachers tell us, has no soul, and maybe it's true, Though I knows the white on her jacket runs plumb clear all the way through, Which is more'n I'd say of some humans possessed pos-sessed of immortal souls Well, loyalty maybe is foolish; it surely don't fatten fat-ten no rolls. And Frost, I guess, is a fool, and don't know her way about, For she'll stick, while your friends forget you as soon as you're down and out. So, according to what they tell us, I'll have to say good-by To the game little pal of a white 'un when it comes my time to die. That's right, I suppose; but if over she thinks that I need her well, That Frost '11 knock down the devil and swim through the flames of hell. New York Sun. |