Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1915 — WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

WALT MASON

The Poet Philosopher. Nine men get up at break of dawr* and toil with splendid zest, to trim the whiskers from the lawn, and keep the weds suppressed. They puli up thistles by the roots, and swat -11 noxious Weeds, and solftly say, “Well bet our boots the-e things won't scatter seeds." They to their conies devote their lives; they striv - f.j keep things neat; they know the lawn, where bluegrass thrives for beauty .an t be beat. The tenth man doesn't e .re a whoop how shabby Things-a ppo a f;. t.h eweed s are .gro wing round his- coop in regiments, each .*i - i- -mothered by the • f ds. which swipe each inch of soil, and every zephyr blows the ->o -. i . ief r the good man’s tofi. 1h- r- is no law to make him eat his weeds, or mow them down, although hi- .la < will queer the street, and Tfi-ndicap the-rown, Why doesn’t con -r- - lip nd knock this Jonah on ‘ ? F< r i,- rly every village i.lo k got this sort of skate.