| Show o 0 CRU CRUMBS IBS FOR FOn T THE fE CHILDREN r r j By Dy CM C. C M M. Good morning there kiddies Here dont don't run awa away Cant Can't you y you l listen and hear what I have to say I know m my face is now a bit s soured soured But once I was red and sun SUIl flecked and flow flowered red With the hue of fresh youth as yours yours Is now The glow of young oung life shone from eyes ees and brow t My Dry ry haIr black as ravens raven's hung over ove m my eyes When I was a kid Just about your you own size Dont Don't hurry away I might dig up astory a astory astory story j I Of old haunted castle or eeds grim grimand grimand and gory Of a giant whose arms arms re reached ched up to the moon K And his eyes blazed straight out cut Ilk like sunshine at noo noon noon Of a man man twice as tall tan tanas as Charlie Charli Barton Whose kiss kiss' V was th the highest st a gIrlever girlever gIrl ever won His waist ast tl the e largest arg st you you ever laid sight on Was Vas fig big ig as the dry dry wai water r tank here In Myton He could leave in the morning a at eight in no hurry And reach Price by noon without the least worry worry He could pick t the le black stallion upon up upon upon on his broad shoulders And carry him up tip there in front o of Joe Holders Holder's And sling him with vengeance and send him a sky tin Acro Across s the commodious main street of pr Dayton Myton And crash through the front o oThe of The Dayton Myton Drug Store And through the prescription case out the back door Jim Taylor well backed by the whole o of the town V Could not hold the one half haIr of this big giant down The women come out out with brooms and bread knives kni They Ther couldn't get near him to save sav their sweet lives No use He could brush hrush them off easy as flies files es And laugh in their faces and spit spi in their eyes To show them he wasn't the least leas bit the worse Hed He'd pick up the bleeding and mangled dead horse And send it sky hootin again cross the street And gut out Fritz dandy and neat Then fly ily to the bridge across the tho Duchesne In spite of the bullets showered on him like rain Not all Wheelers Wheeler's horses nor Myton's brave men lUen Could Could ever lay eyes ees on that giant J again But Dut might tell the towns town's annals annals an an- nals write Of a voice that's yet heard at the still dead of night And the curse that this giant left close to the bridge To this da day you can see it a long barren ridge Where the hand of man ever eyer will labor in vain To even grow grass or one spear of ripe grain Here Dont Don't go away yet I wasn't quite through Your teacher may kick Say I told you what's true That I never thought once of of how the time flies I the sweet interest that from your eyes Oh Lord but I love a clean eager young oung soul Unta Untainted and true and wholesome and whole Im I'm heartsick of mens men's men men's little selfish mean ways Im I'm sick of myself I deserve little praise Why cant can't we ewe do one decent stunt in our life Stead of knocking and croaking and seeking to knife Stead of beating and c cheating and making a holler All over a lousy I illusive old dollar Uh What No nothings nothing's the matter Go on go ahead with your fun un and your clatter This cramp somehow wrings an odd tear from my eye Im I'm all right again now the pain has gone by Go on have your laugh laugh on and grow fatter The more you laugh on it pleases me better I came here to give you some crumbs from my table Here Im I'm eating from yours just as fast tast as Im I'm able I You think I am wise Oh Pshaw Im I'm Ima a fool tool Were the swapping of lives a possible possible ble rule The rest of my life Ute I would give cold and cool T To be one of you kids Just starting to school We Ve men know some things but too much we show it Yo You know a good deal but but dont don't know you knew w It Im I'm glad we have had such a pleasant good time time Im I'm glad that you like this bit stunt stunt- of a rhyme I then said Good Bye tipped my cap and then smiled Folks Theres There's mighty big things Inthe in inthe inthe the heart of a child I |
