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Show oo I Rippling Rhymes (By Walt Mason) v ' FIX UP. The long war made us sick and faint, we had no heart to hump; and so, alas, we did not paint the cow-i cow-i shed and the pump, we read long tales of bones and woe, and let our chorea to thunder go, and now our houses look as though they should be at the flump. We had no heart to trim the trees, or bear dead cats away, when mighty legions, o'er the seas, engaged in bloody tray, and while those legions le-gions thundered on, the tin cans ! gathered on the lawn, with broken dish and demijohn, and heaps of leaves and hay. While still upon the kaiser's brow the tyrant's crown was Been, we had no heart to groom tho cow, or plant the pinto bean; we had no heart to decorate the lawn swing and the garden gate; we merely stood and railed a fate, and cussed the sub- marine. Now in a castle queer and quaint the mildewed kaiser sits, and we should buy some rich red paint, and throw tome clean up fits, ior kaisomine of gaudy hue, to make the shack look good as new, for clover seed and blue grass, too, we ought to blow six bits. We've talked of war a Weary while, of admirals and kings; now let's put on our peace time smile, and think of other things;, let's fix the roof before there's rain, replace the-broken the-broken window pane; a lot of duties In its Iraln this smiling season brings. Copyright by George Matthew Adams. oo Read the Classified Ads. Read the Classified Adi, |