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Show - . . I Wait Mason 4 REAL STUFF. Grown tired of all the modern books j In which sex stuff Prevails. I -ii lit. "Ods ' la dklnB and gadsOOKa, I II read .some old I Mine talc The authors of a bygone time I wrote works that hit the spot, bul mod-j mod-j ern autborshlp 8 a crime, and modern hooks are rot." I took a Cooper story, iben a 'L.cat her-stocklng" yarn; tho sight of It brought back again our old ancestral barn: there I would sit among I the hay when I was but a child, and I roamed with Godpcr far away, in for-' for-' eats dark and Wild, But now I turned . the pages o'er. urnl heaved some weary . sighs: 1 found each character a bore, a preacher in disguise. The paleface hero (trove to teach n lesson worth our while; the noble red men paused t" preach In every f..rc.t aisle The lovely damsels rode around on palfreys black and white and preach ed a while Whcne er they found an audience in sight. The luckless captive cap-tive didn't screech when burning at the slake: he merely saw a Chance lO pre.n. h. , and windy maxims make. I read that lwok an hour or two. th.'n threw It on the floor and sighed. "Great Scott! Can It be true that once It didn't bore And was I ever young enough lo think that story fine" And did I ever read u h stuff and Ihrlll all up my spine' " Copyright b) George Matthew Adams. 00 |