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Show k EPIGRHYMES: - I seen SI Jenkins' young son, Pete his farm's a adjolnln' mine TAKE up 18 fc an' read a letter thet Je6t fta ' a made his black eyes shine. . It told about the bully TIME 1 my boy Is havln', now ; he's gone to trainln'-eamp, fer kids I'm followin' our plow. An' Pete seen mental ' pictures o' new uniforms, an' )B j flags a-flrln' In the sun- )s light! ' Thar he stood, his tj )sg clothes, 'most rags from Ijg workin' on the farm whar he m has spent his sixteen years. He sorta sauntered, thlnkin', to the barn his steps was tears. I seen him standln' BY THE more he love she I Rs nosed his hand ; I seen him ft stroke her FORELOCK like as fee less though she'd understand. An' next he comes a-shamblln' joj back to me-; up goes his head ta I shan't fergit the way he looked ; an' this is what he 151 said: "I'd avrful like to learn to be a soldier1, Uncle Dan ; 3 but I guess workin' this here ta J4 farm would be more like a man I" fea 01' Thales o' Miletus, an' Our )sg President agree ; an' Pete's brave kid self-sacrifice should teach both you an' me ! Robert Russell. "Take time By the forelock." fcaSsRafeBslKiSalsslsslsslEatata (Copyright, 1917, by Int'l Prosfl Bureau.) . |
