Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-24 | Page 5 | Walt Mason

i Walt Mason j HAPPINESS. I had a Utile shanty, and 1 was happy there, with wife and niece and auntie.' and grandma In her .-hair. 1 did not owe .c shilling upon that small abode. DO creditors came drilling to dun me, up tlio road. And I wa ahvas saving against the day of rain, and f.ll the time behaving like aoniu one safe und sane. My aunt, whose name was Alice, w t llppv as could be; she di, a costly palate1 u-as none too good for me. And grandma. grand-ma. In her .sweater Uicked aunt, and' said. "Tui. lut' You should have something some-thing belter why live, in this punk hiU?" M v ni. . IimIois.-.I lln-li kliik. anil n.iv t-.-o ii .lay and back, for she a. tired of Btloktni I" such a tawdry aback With women thus embattled, what can a poor man do? At k.si thej got me rut-tleU, rut-tleU, and all my coin I drew; l mortgaged and l borrowed and built o.-H liome. ; and ever since L've Borrowed, and can has .Teased my dome. I owe the village plumber who piled his art with skill, and . at my house each comer la some one for ., bin. i ow. the gifted painter, win. angiu:-.'.- ;t..i li..vs. and smokier and quainter, ihac 'language dally grows. I owl a i angei . 1 1"- Joint t fox ins , iieams ami I can hear thi Ir i laagor a' midnight. In my dreams. They all are I rude and ranty. and I dlaaolvi In u-.i' . when liilnklng of 'he shanty thai knew my younger years.