Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1909 — WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES. [ARTICLE]

WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES.

In spring, when the green gits back In the trees, And the sun comes out and stays, And yer boots pull on with a good, tight squeeze, And you think of yer bearefoot days; When you ort to work ana you want to not, And you and yer wife agrees It’s time to spade up the garden lot, When the green gits back in the trees— Well! work is the least o’ my Lees When the green, you now, gits back in the trees!

When the green gits back. in the trees, and bges Is a-buzzin’ aroun’ again In that kind of a lazy go-as-you-please Old gait they bum roun’ in; When the groun’s all bald where the hayrick stood, -And le crick’s riz, and the breeze Coaxes the bloom in the old dogwood, And the green gits -ack in the trees— I like, as I say, In sich scenes as these. The time when the green gits back in the trees!

When the whole tailfeathers o' winter time Is all pulled out and gone! zxnd the sap it thaws and begins to climb. And the sweat it starts out on A feller’s forred, a gettin’ down At the old spring on nis knees—- - kindo’ like jest a-loafin’ roun’ When the green gits back in the trees — Jest a-potterin’ roun as I—durn—please. When the green, you know, gits back in the trees. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.