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Show Rippling I Rhymes ! By WALT MASON. IL -d THE SURE CURE Some grand old truths are everlasting everlast-ing , one is that Industry is good; amid the yawping and dodgasting, remember re-member that, and saw your wood. Too many talkers spring their Wheel?, too many make the welkin ring; and as a cure for our diseases work in the sane and proper ring Too many orators ora-tors are Climbing on stumps and kegs to show their curves; and even as 1 do this rhyming a brayish vvlndsmkh Jars my nerves. The puzzling kno'.'s we will unravel, and get things going right once more, when we quit pawing paw-ing up the gravel and get down to the useful chore. There's nothlnp like some honest sweating to drive thfl fnntods from our brains, and help Ut to the prompt forgetting of all our penalties and pains When I am idle 1 start brooding, and entertain the rad-dest rad-dest views, and I have nightmares, vain, deluding, and I see snakes and kangaroos. But I am cheerful when I'm busy. I -inn nweet songs in duicet tones; the Russian stuff seems punk and dizzy to one who'H earning honr.M hones And when we all Ret down io toiling said Russian stuff will see a slump; and fervid language will be spoiling, with other rubbish, at the dump oo |