Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1916 — The Legend of Evil. [ARTICLE]

The Legend of Evil.

This Is the sorrowful story Told when the twilight fails And the monkeys walk together Holding eacii other's tails. "Our fathers lived in the forest. Foolish people were they. They went down to the cornland To teach the farmers to play. Our fathers frisked in the millet. Our father? skipped in the wheat. Our father? hung from the branches, Our fathers danced in the street. "Then came the terrible farmers Nothing of play they knew. Only—they caught bur fathers \nd set them to labor, too! "Set them to work in the cornland. With ploughs and sickles and flails, Put them in mud-walled prisons And—cut off their beautiful tails! Now we can watch our fathers. Sullen and bowed and old; Stooping over the millet Snaring the silly mould. "Driving a foolish furrow. Mending a muddy yoke, Sleeping in mud-walled prisons. Steeping their food in smoke. "We may not speak to our fathers For if the farmers knew They would come up to the forest And set us to labor, too!” This is tlfr horrible story Told as the twilight fails And the monkeys walk together Holding each other’s tails. —Rudyard Kipling. Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office