Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

■ ■ j : 7" Oh, happy day when I began to put. my doubloons down in brine! Whjle you with fear, the future scan, a soul serene and calm -is mine. Long was I slammed around by fate, the dregs of sorrow oft I drank, before I got my 'head on straight, and put some guilders in the bank. I -used to blow my money in as fast or faster than ’twas earned, /and one could fill a good large bin with iron dollars that I burned. I blew in every kind of pelf," the mark, the kopeck and the franc, before I tumbled to myself, and put fay moidores in the bank. And then I always, lived on prunes, was up against the, ragged edge, until, to salt down my doubloons,-I made a large, brassmounted pledge. ' Sin,oe then on "rosy paths T tread, and merrily I whoop and yell; T do not fret, 1 do not dread the dreary old JI. C. of L. I buy my car new rubber tires, and pour rich gas into its tank; he has all things that he desires, who puts his rupees in 4,he bank. ■- : ‘