People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — The Old Man Gets Home. [ARTICLE]

The Old Man Gets Home.

Molly, I’m glad ter meet you! An how air the children all? I’ve been away sence the fust o’ May, clean up ter the gates o’ fall, But I’m done with ’lectioneerin, no matter how times may go. So you look after the house, Molly, an I’ll take keer o’ the hoe! They say you jest made half a erap, an things is lookin slim; That the squire closed out the mortgage we’ve been a-owin of him, An thar’s mighty,little ter keep us warm in the winter’s cold an snow, But you look after the house, Molly, an I’ll take keer o’ the hoe! I’ve been half round the country workin from sun ter sun r Bet all I had on Jinkins, an Johnson it wuz that won! An I’ve come home like the prodigal, an the veal won’t have no show, But if you’ll take keer o’ the house, Molly, I’ll take keer o’ the hoe! —Frank L. Stanton in Chicago Times-Herald.