Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1916 — Walt Mason’s Rhymes. [ARTICLE]

Walt Mason’s Rhymes.

My neighbor keeps a lot of bees, which much annoyance bring me, for when I sit beneath the trees, they come along and sting me. Another neighbor keeps a pup, the which I’d like to hammer; all night it shakes the welkin up, with most disgusting clamor; and when I try to do a bit of ground and lofty sleeping,, that mangy bow-wow throws' a fit, its noisy vigils keeping. And still another neighbor owns a -husky short-horn rooster, and one may hear its strident tones from Wahoo to Wooster. And when the pup, whose music cloys, grows weary of its carols, the rooster springs a lot of noise—about a million barrels. Between the /ooster and the bees, the concerts dog-and-catty, my mind is bagging at knees—l fear I’m going batty. The life we live would be less raw, and peace would bless our labors, if congress would produce a law abolishing all neighbors.