Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-15 | Page 4 | Walt Mason

oo WALT MASON e POOR HUMAN NATURE It's humap nature. 1 suppose, to comfort find it others' woes. When rheumatic, with tireless vim assails my h If-worn larboard llmb: and I am i iiMilnR dope thereon nod raising Ned from dark till dawn, I'm cheered b) hearing news from Gregg's ho has the ill in both his legs. No more 1 murmur and repino; he has a fiercer j close than mine. This Gregg's good 'mid loyal friend; he's don mo favors I without end- and gladly. gayb- I'd re-epond; re-epond; of old Pete Gregg I'm v cry lona linn wny uo i lejone iu kho that Grt'gK can duplicate my woo. and mIiow a surplus of disease In both his ankles and his knees'' And Greug confensed to me. one time, the details of a kindred crime. He had lumbago In hie hark, and sat complaining In his hack. conrumlng pills and other dope, nil shorn of confidence and hope. Hln grief obsessed him till ho knew I hal lumbago und the flu; two fell dlseasen In my triune, nnd ready to gi e. up the game. The tidings braced him for a while, 'he g.'ive three cheers and heaved heav-ed a smile 1 wonder wh this thing us SO that v e can better hear our woe If lold come neighbor. In his lair, has twloe our grief and soma to spare. Our human nature's a surprise, and hard lo parse :uid analyze.