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Show ip: -r Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON j) GOVERNMENT. W ise gov ernment can ao a lot to i bnnhton up our days; wise govern-j mtfnt will hit the spot In fifty-seven ways. And still we'll have to buckle down and saw our share of oak, If we'd have credit In the town and not be always broke. Good government w ill help us all, If we should help our- I selves, and we'll have pictures on the wall, and pies upon the shelves; ana we're serine in what we own of land, or hay or gold, and when we earn ai shining bone. It's ours, to have and hold Ami we re protected In our car. and in our bed. at rest, good goern- RlCnl will k"r that far, when it Is at its best But it won't take the pi l of toil, by which the prudent thrive It will not hoc the weedy soil, or keep the- corn alive I don't depend on man made laws to help me dodge life's Ills the smoothest law that BVer was won't pav my monthlv bills. The noblest statute In the book won t keep the wolf away, or buy a sack of spuds j to cook, if I loaf round all day.' I leave my shack nt morning, bent on i hours of useful toil; I don't depend , on government to make the kettle i boll. |