Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

WALT MASON

(The Foot Philosopher) \ I jaunted in my motor car, and I" ‘n O'er Jimp oil's shote, and ' i-otn that creature knocked the tar; I . surelj got his goat. I offered payI men; for the pig—A; was neither I large nor fat but Jimpson made the I price too big; I Wouldn’t stand for I that. "The rankest graft I ever j saw,” J cried With rising ire; “be--1 fore I’ll pay I’ll go to law —a lawyer ; 1 shall hire.'' We went, to law; the ! case was tried by judges near and far; and now I gee the lawyer ride in my nice motor , car. I trudge along on weary feet, all hardened with disgust; the lawyer scoots ! along the street, and covers me with ! dust. Old Jimpson had a hundred j pigs, that feed on cockle-burrs; (they’ve gone id 1 purchase gowns and wigs for stately barristers. We stood last night by my abode, to cuss the legal rich; my lawyer motored down the road, and shoved us in the ditch. For such a dark and dismal shame there’s nothing can atone; the ear that climbed my palsied frame was formerly my ; _own. Oh, Jimpson had a hundred hogs, and I a cfioo-choo cart; and lie has nothing now but dogs, and I a broken heart.