| Show IJ S. S r Trying the Soul The sun beats down fiercely on this arid and desert waste causes warm air to rise which in turn pulls other air in to take its place with the result that we have high wind storms as great annoyance It sometimes takes three days to readjust and in that three days we get all the gales manufactured ground is dried as with a blast from a furnace the atmospheric difference is felt by those sensitive to such changes with a morbidity accounted for only by a change in pressure And of course the dust is bad It seems like the little gremlins the pitts oon-i-pitts the pixies deliberately stand in front of our door and shoot in wafts of breeze laden with dust then they chirp all glee a-glee over the deviltry they've done load done load desks and cases gewgaws with dust fill the linotype e channels so matts hesitate like a backward swain on his first puppy-love puppy fill the teeth and the back hair with grit and otherwise disport themselves as annoying little elves bent on seeing humans writhe in tion It doesn't do any good to complain the complain the wind wont won't stop the little gremlins wont won't quit shoveling sand into the currents the housewife cant can't scare em with a duster duster in in fact we believe they take a adelight adelight adelight delight in seeing a wrathful woman chase about dusting dusting dusting chasing dirt Grit gets into the temper with these gales of wind-blown wind sand words are sharp and cutting tongues get keen of edge And all that just because of windstorms and dust We have em three days of em then wipe off the furniture wax the floor and when the blow is over sit back in the easy rocker and wonder if other communities communities com corn are similarly afflicted Guess so some gremlins stir up winds and dust I others overflowing rivers and others sit on the ration ration ration ra ra- ra- ra tion card and watch you count up points r Oh those Gremlins Source of soul annoyance t i T is the white mans man's burden den a. a t s1 |
