Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1918 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

To one who's constituted right, ■some solace always is in sight, 'whatever troubles life may bring; he’ll find excuse to smile and sing. Jim Wilkins had a patch of beans i and artichokes and other greens, •the finest in the countryside; in it he took an honest pride. One I night Si Pennypaeker's cow, which has a low, retreating brow, went bulging into Wilkin’s yard, when ’no night watchman was on guard. At dawn, when Jimuel arose, and I through the window pushed his , nose, to gaze upon his garden sass, he found but ruin there, alas! I thought to heat b : m rant and • swear, and see him paw ar** tear his hair, but he surveyed wftib i manful grin, the wreckage that ithe place was in. “How thankful I should be,’’ said he; “she didn’t ' eat my cherry tree! She spared the clothesline and the pump; why should I have a doleful dump? I'm thankful, too, ’twas but a cow; if it had been a warthog, now, or if some big rhinoceros had come and put this stunt across, there’d taot be any landscape here, so watch me smile from ear to ear.” ' I put him in a padded cell, where he is doing very well.