Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1916 — THE ANNUAL PAINTFEST. [ARTICLE]

THE ANNUAL PAINTFEST.

By Walt Mason.

The time’s at hand, O sons of toil, to buy eight quarts of linseed oil, and half a peck of lead and zinc, and paint the house that’s on the blink. 1 0, weild the brush with gladsome ■ shout till painter’s colic knocks you out. There’S nothing sadder than a shack that’s gone to ruin and to rack because the owner is too tight to buy some paint and make it bright. I buy some pigment every spring, and paint the smokehouse and the swing, and if no pigment is for sale, I buy some hogment with niy kale, and I paint the chimney, tall and broad, I the cistern and the -lightning rod. I buy shellac.and. turpentine and make the whole blamed digging shine, and thus 1 gladden up the hearts of people in their choo-ehoo carts, who scorch along the dusty road,, and rubber at my gay abode, “Gee whiz,” they cry, “that fat old bard must buy his shoatment by the yard: A fine example he has set to all the world, already yet!”