The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-21
HIS OLD YELLOW ALMANAC.

| left tho farm when mother died, and
changed my place Of dwellin'
TO daughter Susie's stylish house, right
in the city street,
And there was them, before I came, that
sort OF scared me tellin'
How l would find the town-foiks' ways
so difficult to meet.
They said I'd have no comfort In the
r%ustlin'. hxed-up throng,
And I'd have TO wear stiff collars every
weekday right along.
1 find I taxi to city ways just like a duck
to water.
like the racket and the noise, and
And there's no end Of comfort in the man
sion Of my daughter,
And everything Is right at hand, and
money freely flows;
And hired help is all about, just listenin'
for my call,
But 1 miss the yellow almanac from off
my kitchen wall.
The house is full of calendars from attic
They're painted in all colors. and are
fancy-like to see.
But just in this particular I'm not a mod
ern Teller,
And the yellow-covered almanac is good
enough for me;
I'm used to it. I've seen 1t round from
boyhood to old age,
And ! rather like the Jokin' at the bottom
of each page.
l like the way the s. stood out to show
the weeks beginnin'
Gin these new-fangled calendars the
days seemed sort Of mixed).
And the man upon the cover. though he
was mt exactly wfnnin'
With lungs and liver all exposed, still
showing how we are fixed;
And the letters, credentials that was writ
1've often, on a rainy day, found readin'
very fair.
r &rfoS RI find n1>a raoapt11. fJorn nv
one in the city.
hey toted out great calendars in every
sort of style:
swered 'em in pity.
"Id rather have my almanac thar all
that costly pile"
And, thong | take to city life, I'm lone
some, after all,
For that old yellow almanac upon my
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