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Show 1 Walt Mason ... - ! TALKING SHOP We all are fond of tulkinK shop, when we round up together; the shoe man sounds his plaintive yawp about the price of leather, the farmer spiels about nil crop, and walls about the weather. The cook, lii language terse and quaint, discourses of his frying, the man who sells us plass and pain', bus found conditions con-ditions trying the undertaker makes complaint that people have quit dying The doctor talks of sawing Minus, and patients' revolutions, the oculist of heul-ing heul-ing glims b magical ablutions. And every fellow files a roar, and shows he's discontented; the pood old bappy tlm of .rr- by svisryone's lamented; the cry of hpirlls worn and sore Is thus with ardor vented We feel we're shaikh"! up with grief bj rusty chain and fetter, and when Hum mumps we get relief, I we have a dose of tetter, and. having' I paused to kick and SStef, . .ill "i us feetl bolter. We have to kick around a while.; wo have to grumble dally, we have to work off surplus bile, and swear that life I Is seal?., and then we don the shelf-warn r.mlle and do our business gay ly. Our j safety valve we find In kicks. they! I soothe the human critter, and only su-' ! pirflclal hicks can think our hearts are; bitter; we throw some harmless rocks ' and bricks, and then wc sing and twlt-( twlt-( ter. 00 |