Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — JUNE DAYS. [ARTICLE]

JUNE DAYS.

By Walt Mason.

“p, what is so smooth as a day in June? Then, if ever, are flossy days!” So the poet sang, with his lyre, in tune, and the subject deserved his praise. For a day in June is the slickest thing that ever the gods designed, and the man who doesn't then smile and sing has barnacles on his mind. Then the coltkins play and the calfkins romp, and gamboling are the lambs, and the bullfrogs toot in the lonely swamp, all happy as pickled clams. Then the grass is green and the skies are blue, as blue as the laws allow, and the blossoms gleam in the morning dew like gems on a damsel’s brow. Man’s bosom throws with abounding life, he ceases to fear and fret, and he remarks to his smiling wife, “This world is the onelbest bet.” It is the time of the blushing bride, the time of the graduate; and man, he tosses his grouch aside, and sees that his smile’s on straight.