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Show 1 Walt Mason i . MASTERPIECES. I stand the bulky book on end, phe It IS glance, and let It drop th- stuif lh.: wise men recommend to vou'hs who I yearn to reach the top. J wonder if the wise men read th dope they'd llko to l-u 'long, ftale bunk from sage gen--to seed, and bards who croak :i dreary . song I've tons of volumes In my home, on reading them I'm always bent, but I I pass up the musty tonic that makes pe-I pe-I rval punishment Th- mildewed pages, when they wrought, held it a crime tc , start a smile. I have i (,: , f,i Gem of Thought couched m a dull and dismal ! style The wise men like to stood on lend, and say to youth. Read useful j books' Here is a work we recommend -I the sermons of Augustus .Snooks. ' Hut when these wive old boys were lads Do -hid In their respective barns In trembling trem-bling terror of thdr dada, and rend '.!,. Beadle brand of yarns, I say to youth 'read high romance, and tales of d.tr r and of gore, the day will come, an years advance; when they won t thrill yoi ,r, . m ire. Then with the wise men you will Mand. fend sa to striplings blllho and hale (some punk old volume In vour hand). "Read anything that's flat "and j stale'" |