The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-23
THE TRAMPs STORY

THE TRAMPS STORY.
hexperIenceha has gold in it Cas discerning folks
Then there's quite little fortune slowed
away somewhere in me,
And deal II out regardless OF a regular stated
In roagh-dene-up prize packages of common
The people they can take it, or run round it, as
But the best thing they'll find in it is some
Worm or beetic, drought or tempest, on a farmers
But for t,s,-cldss TIrfpdtiorl, trust a mortgage
'0uiIlst them dH
On my weddin' day my father touched me
kindly on the arm,
And handed me the papers for an eighty-acre
With the stock an tools an buildin's for an in
Saying: Here's a wedding present from my
muscle and my heart;
And. except the admonitions you have taken
And the reasonable iiekin's that you had when
you was young,
And your food and clothes and schoolin' (not
so much as / could wish,
, FOR lhad number eatin from some at
And the honest love you captured when you
first sat on my knee,
This is all 1 have to give you-so expect no
more from me"
People ID said couldn't marry the sweet girl
rllwe smilingiy submitted minority report;
Then they laid their theories over, with quick
And said they knew we'd marry, but we never
could agree;
neighbors had to say,
But ran our little heaven in our own peculiar
We started OF quite jolly, wondrous full Of
health and cheer,
And a general understanding that the road
was pretty clear.
A.. :.
little family party
That came on from Heaven to visit us were
br ght and hale aud hearty:
And to-day We might ha' been there had only
How TO lay my road down solid, and let well
But soon commenced G-kicking in the traces,
confess.
There was too much land that joined me that
When once he gets land-hungry, strange how
ravenous one can.bel
'TWdsnt long before wanted all the ground
that could see.
So 1 boucht another eighty (not foreboding
And Tor that and some dowu-money put a
mortgare on my farm
Then bought another forty, hired some cash
And 20 buy a covered carriage-and of course
the mortgage grew.
right that yo1 should know,
Though I'm very far from saying that think
But she went in hearty with me, working hard
For % We Knew @ Ii that ' lie was business. now we
had that debt to pay.
We worked through spring and winter,
But that mortgage worked the hardest and the
steadiest or US all;
each holiday:
1t settled down among us, and it never went
Whatever We kept from it seemed Almost as
bad as theft;
1t watched us every minute, and it ruled US
The rust and blight were with us sometimes,
and sometimes not;
The dark-browed, scowling mortgage was for
The weevii and the cut-worm they went as
The mortgage staid forever, eating hearty all
1t nailed up every window, stood guard at
And happiness and sunshine made their home
with us no mole.
TIL with falling crops and sickness we got
stalled upon the grade,
And there came dark day on us when the in
And there came a sharp foreclosure, and 1
kind o. lost my hold,
And grew weary and discouraged, and the
The children left and scattered whea they
hardly yet were grown;
Ny wife she pined an perished, an 1 found
What she died OF was "a mystery" an the
But s TSnes she she died of fmortOaOe-iust as wells
If to trace a hidden sorrow were within the
doctors art,
They'd ha' found mortgage lying on that
womans broken heart
Two different kinds OF people the dew most
assails;
One is the man who conquers; the other, he
But sun 1 think the last kind are soonest to
And to hidc their sorry faces behind the
shameful cup,
Like some old King or other. whose name I've
They sfralghtway tear their eyes out, just
whom they need 'em most
When once 1 had discovered that the debt
tried 70 liquidate it in rather common
1 used TO meet IN private feIlow-hnancier,
And we would drink ourselves worth ten
thousand dollars clear
As easy a way to prosper as ever has been
But ones a heap sight poorer when he gets
back to the ground
OF course ought to ha' braced up. an worked
1 amt a-tryin' 70 shirk out, or cover up from
But Still stsii think men often, it safely may be
Are dricen to temptations, in place of being
And u that tyrant mortgage hadn't cracked
ms whip at me,
shouldn't have constituted the ruin that you
For though I've never stolen or defaulted
please TO know,
Ye., socially considered, 1 am pretty middlIn
low.
lam helpless an forsaken; am childle.s an
atone:
Ihsven single dollar that's it's fair to cal
Ny old age knows no comfort, my heart Il
scant % cheer;
The children they run from me as soon as
come near:
The women shrink and tremble-theIr aim
are fear-bestOwed;
The dogs howl curses at me. and hunt me dow
the road:
are few and cold:
Oh. little is there in this world for one who
poor and old
Butfm wealthy in experience, all put up II
good advice,
the price:
You may have it, an thrive on it, or run roun'
it, as you please,
But / generally give it wrapped up in som
such words as these:
Worm or beetle, drought or tempest, on a farm
eT's land may 1du,
But for fyst-cidss r1iindtion, trust mort0d0
'Qairlst them AL
From .Fd1m Festfudls,'' by wa Carleton.
JOICEY SWEETS C0URTSHIP.
A Pioneer Idyi.