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Show JUST FOLKS l! Mf Edear A. Owl i THE REASON. I've never forgotten my father's sign When I aBked for things which he couldn't buy, I've never forgotten the tender way He would look at me, and the words ho'd say: "Oh, I'd like to buy for you every toy, But the times are hard, and I can't, my boy." I think that I vaguely understood He'd have bought those things If he only could, I think that I knew that it hurt Inside When a wish of mine had to be denied. For strange lines came to his gentle brow And he'd say, "I can't, my boy. Just now." Now they're telling me that I'm spoil ing him By granting his every wish and whim, But there's something more that they do not know A lesson learned in the long ago, When the times were hard and my father sighed When a wish of mlno had to be denied I know what it means to a little boy To want and seldom possess a toy. And I know how It hurts a father so When the times are hard and he must say "No," But once in the past I made a vow' That my boy should have what I missed, somehow. oo Toy balloons are used by the weather weath-er bureau to dotermln thei condition Of t tie atmosphere. |